The rector of the University of Concepción and president of the network of non-state public universities G9, Carlos Saavedra, delivered his observations in The Counter at La Clave Regarding the 2023 Budget Law presented by President Gabriel Boric.
In that sense, he stated that “we are interested in and it seems absolutely necessary to us to review the availability of uses of the surpluses of the University Credit Solidarity Fund. As it stands today, the gloss is extremely limited and allows only addressing aspects that have to do with the article 108 transient”.
This means the cost of studies for those who are free from the first year after the nominal duration of their degrees. “” There, the universities have to respond with 50% of these resources, and what we have asked is that the use of the total surpluses be allowed and also expand the uses, “he added.
Reinforcing the foregoing, it points out that “not only limited to article 108 of Law 21,091, but also associated with the other transitory articles (35 and 38) that have to do with the limitations on the collection of university fees given the time in which the law was established”.
On the other hand, he maintains that for the G9, “it is necessary to review the elimination of four historical glosses that provided funds for the institutional development of the universities of the G9 network. These funds were eliminated in the 2021 Budget and of course they were not present in 2022 and we hope that these historical funds will be restored”.
“Therein lies our emphasis. In the first two subjects we have talked with the Ministry of Education, in particular with the Undersecretary of Higher Education, and we understand that they have a good receptivity to these points. However, it has to be materialized in the modifications to the Budget law that they have already proposed,” concluded Saavedra.
