Rectors seek to extend student benefits until the end of the second academic semester

20/12/2011
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The Council of Rectors informed the Higher Education Division of the Ministry of Education that students at traditional universities have approximately 130,000 food and living allowance scholarships.

The university rectors met with representatives from CONFECH to analyze the situation and discuss how to extend the delivery of these student grants.
With the aim of supporting the student request to extend the benefit of maintenance scholarships to the entire second academic semester, the Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities (CRUCH) presented to the Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) a general estimate of the students who could require this benefit during the months of January and February.
According to information provided by the Council of Rectors, approximately 130,000 living and food scholarships are currently being received by students at CRUCH universities. This same estimate indicates that extending these scholarships would represent an expenditure of over 3.1 billion pesos per month.
 “We are hopeful that this will all end positively and that scholarships for students will be extended. We are working with the Ministry of Education to make this happen,” said Rector Juan Manuel Zolezzi, Executive Vice President of the Council of Rectors.
The executive committee of the Council of Rectors met yesterday with the executive board of the Confederation of Chilean Students (CONFECH), where the number of scholarship recipients and the costs of extending the scholarship period were presented. The rectors also expressed to the students their willingness to find a solution to this legitimate demand.
Yesterday afternoon, the university rectors met in an extraordinary plenary session in which the head of the Higher Education Division (DIVESUP) of the Ministry of Education, Juan José Ugarte, explained the destinations and delivery methodologies of the different funds included in the Higher Education section of the 2012 Budget.