Alonso Urrutia and Arturo Sánchez
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 22, 2025, p. 8
In collaboration with public universities and other higher education institutions, the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) launched the SaberesMX platform, through which it aims to expand the educational offer and the dissemination of courses of the widest range, as announced by President Claudia Sheinbaum. Registration to take the courses began yesterday. With this initiative, it is intended that these institutions also certify both the courses and the different areas where these online courses are offered.
The head of the SEP, Mario Delgado, highlighted that the very rapid dynamic of expansion of current knowledge forces universities to renew themselves and expand the dissemination of their educational services. “We are going to extend the right to education so that it is permanent throughout life, at all times and in all places. We will also help you with technology so that you can reach more people. That is what the Saberes platform is about. Higher education, until now, was conceived like this: you go to school, they give you your degree, that is where the right to education ends.”
During the conference, Delgado pointed out that the dissemination of courses has expanded on private platforms, so public institutions cannot let this situation surpass them and must take advantage of new information technologies to enhance their courses.
The Undersecretary of Higher Education, Ricardo Villanueva, highlighted that SaberesMX is a platform that has high scalability and integration through the possibility of linking several platforms of public universities, that is, SaberesMX is a “meta-platform.”
Villanueva mentioned that the first course available is “SanaMente LibreMente: young people for peace and against addictions.” It is about linking in the first instance this new scheme – which has begun to be worked on with the National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (Anuies) – with the priority it has for the security strategy in addressing the causes and promoting campaigns that discourage young people from turning to drugs.
“The idea is to provide them with tools to strengthen their emotional well-being and build healthier relationships, thus developing more empathetic, supportive and resilient environments,” said the undersecretary.
He explained that the contents of this first course were prepared by the Ministry of Health, the National Commission on Mental Health and Addictions; the National Institute of Psychiatry and 70 specialists from various institutions. The pedagogical design and digital production was done by experts from UNAM and Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Support to graduate
In principle, it is intended that the courses taught through this platform be of the widest range in order to promote comprehensive education. In addition, Delgado said that in this way those who have not been able to complete their university career will be able to graduate, since it is estimated that there are currently 10.5 million people who at some point went through universities but did not complete their degree.
