At the end of a meeting between President Gustavo Petro and the rectors of the country’s public universities, the Minister of Education, Alejandro Gaviria, announced this Thursday that the state university system promised to generate 60,000 new places this yearin order to reduce the gap in access to higher education.
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“The system promised to immediately generate 60,000 new higher education places this year. We reiterate that the budget increase for the base of the state university system was the highest historically; we increased 5 percentage points above inflation, plus an additional $13,000 million for development“said the Minister.
Additionally, he added that during the meeting of the Head of State with the 34 rectors of public universities an evaluation of the higher education goals and joint plans was made, and purposes were articulated.
“We are working within the Government to obtain more resources in the budget addition that is going to be defined this weekend at the meeting of the Council of Ministers,” said the head of the portfolio.
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The Minister also indicated that A reform project to Law 30 of 1992 will be presented to the Congress of the Republic.
“We talked about the need and, on that we will work together, presenting to Congress a reform to Law 30 of the year 92, to articles 86 and 87, which will allow solving the problems of structural underfinancing, and leveraging the goals of increases in the coverageGaviria explained.
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He indicated that the meeting also addressed a topic of high interest to President Petro, concerning the articulation between higher education and secondary education.
In the same context, he asserted that reference was made to the need to “that the National Government supports the Higher Education Regionalization programs“.
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