Council of Rectors meets with the president of the Senate to analyze the agenda in higher education

The Executive Committee of the Council of Rectors met this morning with the President of the Senate, Senator Camilo Escalona, to analyze the 2012 educational agenda and offer him the support of CRUCH to work and advance on all the key issues for Higher Education.

At the meeting, the university presidents expressed their concern about the issues and concerns raised last year that remain unresolved. “We expressed our concern that many of the proposals made by the Council of Presidents, and by the students themselves, have not been implemented. While we acknowledge improvements in funding and scholarships, we are still lagging behind on the fundamental issues,” stated President Juan Manuel Zolezzi, executive vice president of the Council of Presidents.

 “We are concerned that we don’t see a clear roadmap on key issues for education reform, such as quality assurance, ending profit-making in education, and the Superintendency of Higher Education. We believe a roadmap must be developed to address and resolve these issues,” Zolezzi emphasized.

For his part, Senate President Camilo Escalona called on the government to develop this agenda through dialogue, stating, “We bear the essential responsibility of generating concrete practices that allow us to move forward in resolving university demands, and for that, we need an agenda. My call is for the Minister of Education to develop it through dialogue.”.

The meeting was also attended by the rectors Aldo Valle, from the University of Valparaíso, Víctor Cubillos from the Austral University, and Héctor Gaete from the University of Bío-Bío.

This Thursday at 9:00 a.m., the Council of Rectors will hold its plenary meeting with the Minister of Education, Harald Beyer. The objective of the meeting is to discuss the issues in higher education that will be the priority in 2012.