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Demand the public universities new financing model By: Ladislao
Jiménez-Benavides, Saturday, june 1, 2007 Assert governing that it is indispensable to convert into obligatory the junior high school Mexico (The news of the Monterrey City). - Will be necessary to modify the Constitution and to finish with the educational centers call them “patito”, hold. This is what assert the directors of education institutions superior that proposed, to accomplish reforms to the constitutional article to make effective the goal of achieving a coverage of 30 percent in this level and to make obligatory the preparatory (junior high school), as well as to establish a new
financing model "multi years" and to avoid the universities proliferation "patito", through the strengthening of the mechanism regulatories.
During the inauguration of the forum in the one which the universities affiliated to the National Universities Association and Education institutions Superior (ANUIES) presented said proposals to be included in the National Education Program (PNE), the undersecretary of this studies level, Rodolfo Tuirán expressed that there will be changes in the Political Constitution of Mexico.
These constitutional reforms are necessary, to improve the coverage challenges, quality, equity and relevancy of the level education superior (PNE).
With relation to the proliferation of education centers superior "patito"; " have been checked about 8 thousand 200 level programs superior in the pasts three years, and between them, they have been established sanctions to 2 thousand 200, but alone 69 institutions them has been withdrawn the official validity recognition from studies. From there that it will be necessary to guarantee a greater severity in the regulation to avoid fraudulent exercises.
In the forum accomplished in The Association of Mexico, Tuirán recalled that the goal of this administration is to increase the education coverage superior to 30 percent, and in matter of quality, asserts; "there is no an alone education institution superior Mexican,
public or private that in the several ranking available is found between the first 100 math and science programs."
With respect to financing recognized that the outstanding model of federal allocation of resources must be checked. Furthermore it explained; "is required a definition of the education superior as development lever, but that it will be of legal character, because of be, thus would result useless, since does not compel to nothing."
It was indicated in this meeting, on the part of the integrating; "that they should be unified criteria for the position of a structure only of educational model", asserted the representative of the UAH, Víctor Martínez. Other opinion, it is; "if Mexico wants to count in the average term on educational spaces at level superior of real quality, the authorities should make an important investment since is required to build new academic excellence institutions to attend effectively demand that will be increased in the following decades", assured the general director of the Institute National Politécnico (IPN), Enrique Villa Rivera.
On the efforts that are made, said; the general director of the IPN, "the most recent effort in the metropolitan zone is that of the Metropolitan University of the Mexico City, that it has been an extraordinary effort, though still has a small height." Mentioned; "that for the next scholastic cycle the IPN will receive about 21 thousand 700 youths from new revenue at level superior - 5 percent more than for the past period -; however, it expressed that of the more than 72 aspirant thousand that presented admission examination, little more than 50 thousand will not obtain a place in that academic institution."(la Jornada, sociedad y justicia, p. 37, May 29 of 2007)