The readjustment of the fees was informed in the last hours to the privately managed educational system through a communication from the General Directorate of Culture and Education.
He Buenos Aires government authorized a 7.5% increase from the month of June in the fees for privately run colleges, after a claim that had been formulated by the Association of Private Education Institutes of the province of Buenos Aires (Aiepba).
The readjustment of the fees was informed in the last few hours to the privately managed education system through a communication from the General Directorate of Culture and Education and establishes a new scheme of “tariff caps” for all levels and modalities of education with a average increase of 7.5%.
From Aiepba it was indicated today in a statement that “In the agreement signed by some entities and the Buenos Aires government on February 14, an increase of 3.35% was authorized every month as part of the Fair Prices program promoted by the National Ministry of Economy.”
“Less than a week ago, Aiepba raised a request to the General Directorate of Schools to update the fees in private schools to face part of the new salary increases that were agreed for teachers in parities with the provincial government” , he signed up.
As a basis for this request, the Executive Secretary of Aiepba, Martín Zurita, stated that the tariffs “have a delay of several percentage points, both in comparison with the increase granted to teachers, and in relation to the consumer price index accumulated up to this month”.
With the new authorization, the costs of educational services will have an increase of 38.4%, while the salaries of teachers who partially cover the educational institutes, based on the percentage of subsidy provided by the State, will receive a increase of 41.5%.
Source: Ambito
