Victor Ballinas
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, October 27, 2024, p. 8
The rectors of the Autonomous University of Chiapas, Carlos Faustino Natarén Nandayapa, and of Nayarit, Norma Liliana Galván Meza, highlighted in an interview that higher education institutions in the states require support from the Federation to pay debts they have with the ISSSTE. Fovissste and the SAT.
Both rectors highlighted that With the resources we have, we are willing to increase university enrollment
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Carlos Natarén Nandayapa, rector of the Autonomous University of Chiapas, highlighted: We have made great efforts to increase enrollment and in recent years we have had successful cases, we managed to increase enrollment by more than 30 percent with the same budget
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They appreciate support
He acknowledged that this was possible, because we have had a lot of support from the state government, which has allowed us, through extraordinary contributions, to pay debts that existed with the Fovissste, Issste and the Tax Administration Service, which has enabled us to make this effort to expand enrollment , which in the entity has been very significant
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Regarding the announcement made by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, on Wednesday, to create 330 thousand places for students in public universities in this six-year term, she highlighted that in the National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (Anuies): All of us principals are committed to making education an objective that is truly achieved, because it is one thing to have a right and another thing to be able to exercise it for all the young people of this country.
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The southeast, stressed: It is one of the regions that most requires this boost in university education, here, in this region, there is the largest number of young people who need to enter university.
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Multiple challenges
The rector of the Autonomous University of Nayarit, Galván Meza, said: We have been in various forums with other rectors, with other federal and state institutions and bodies; We have been talking about this issue for some time, regarding increasing coverage in each of our states. There are still many challenges, some more marked than others, and in some states we have approached the national average in terms of coverage.
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However, he specified: In order to reach this goal, at least progressively there must be certain rethinking and some analyzes regarding the resources that the institutions can continue to receive. We have made the maximum effort, because with our capabilities, both academic and teaching staff and infrastructure (in the face of these new challenges that the President has posed), we will be working in a coordinated manner with the Federation
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He remembered that Almost 10 years ago, if I remember correctly, the federal policy regarding universities was that all these educational institutions had to increase our spaces for the higher level, either by diversifying the modalities to be able to take them or also in the sense of diversifying the own career offering. we did it
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