Rector Aldo Valle: «If any university belonging to the CRUCH is excluded from free tuition, the government will demonstrate an unacceptable inconsistency.”

“It is deplorable that after decades of privatization without regulation and technocracy, it still does not understand the public sector,” said Rector Aldo Valle.

Faced with the possibility that the government will send to the National Congress a "short bill" that excludes three state universities from free tuition for 2016, the executive vice president of the Council of Rectors, CRUCH, and rector of the University of Valparaíso, Aldo Valle, decisively rejected this initiative.

«If any university belonging to the Council of Rectors is excluded from free tuition, the government will demonstrate an unacceptable inconsistency. By leaving three state universities in that situation, the message being sent is that strengthening public education is not a priority,” stated Rector Valle.

He added that this "short law" formula casts doubt on the clarity of the objectives of the reform that will soon be sent to parliament and "causes serious distrust among our institutions, since we did not expect that a proposal of this type would be put forward by those who committed to the country a reform that would give rise to a new higher education system.".

On the other hand, Valle was emphatic in pointing out that "it is certainly deplorable that after decades of privatization without regulation and technocracy in higher education, there is still a persistence in ignoring the public sector and that this is an initiative of those who have set out to recover the balances inherent in a mixed provision system.".

Finally, Rector Valle stated that "errors can be understood and even helped to overcome, but we will not participate in initiatives that deviate from the civic commitments assumed.".