Executive Vice President of CRUCH: "We value the willingness, availability, and openness to achieve progress."«

05/09/2011
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Rector Víctor Pérez, along with other representatives of the Council of Rectors, participated in the meeting between the Government and CONFECH held last Saturday at La Moneda.

For nearly four hours, the President of the Republic, Sebastián Piñera, held a meeting with representatives of the Confederation of Students of Chile (CONFECH), secondary school students, the Teachers' Association and the Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities (CRUCH).

The main objective of the meeting was to seek consensus among the different actors to initiate dialogue and guide an educational reform.

For Rector Víctor Pérez, executive vice president of the Council of Rectors, this was a very productive meeting, since “all the actors moved forward with a willingness to engage in dialogue and we value this availability and openness to achieve progress.”.
To the above, Rector Juan Manuel Zolezzi added that no points were left out of the dialogue, "the need to strengthen public education was raised, we talked about fees and basic contributions.".
Finally, Rector Ignacio Sánchez detailed that there was significant progress on eight of the 12 points of CONFECH's petition.
On Monday, representatives of this organization met with the Minister of Education, Felipe Bulnes, and received a proposal to begin working groups. The decision of the university students will be analyzed by the various federations and debated with their members at the meeting to be held this Thursday, the 8th, in Talca.