The president of the Consortium of State Universities and Rector of the University of Chile, Ennio Vivaldi Véjar, stated that “it was a blunder, for which today we are paying too dearly, that it was sought on purpose, as a desired objective, to discriminate against the most vulnerable and separate them from those who could pay a little more. “An irreplaceable instance of encounter and social cohesion was lost.”

The president of the Consortium of Universities of the State of Chile and Rector of the University of Chile, Ennio Vivaldi Véjar, stated that “great damage has been done to social cohesion” by ignoring the role of public education.

Educational segmentation and its consequences on the inequality that our country experiences is one of the main issues that authorities must reflect on, said Rector Vivaldi. “It was a blunder, for which we are paying too dearly today, that it was purposely sought, as a desired objective, to discriminate against the most vulnerable and separate them from those who could pay a little more. An irreplaceable instance of encounter and social cohesion was lost,” he added.

The Rector of the University of Chile added that the State universities have always been willing to seek solutions to strengthen education at all levels.

At the monthly meeting of the Consortium of State Universities of Chile - in which the Rector of the University of La Serena, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, was present - the role that institutions have played in the social outbreak was addressed.

In this regard, the president of CUECH, Ennio Vivaldi, He appreciated that universities are being a center of cohesion, articulation, and pluralism for a call from their communities to society as a whole.

In this regard, Vivaldi called for university communities, that is, academics, students and officials, to remain firmly united, to be protagonists of the changes demanded by society as a whole.

Budget

We celebrate that Congress has approved the use of the surpluses of the Solidarity Fund to address the deficit generated by gratuity and we hope that the application of this measure is not unnecessarily postponed.

Technical Table

We also celebrate the agreement in Congress to form a Technical Working Group that addresses the problems generated by the CAE and the Solidarity Fund, a Board that, in the opinion of the president of CUECH, must offer real and acceptable solutions for citizens as a whole.

Source: CUECH