The Interuniversity Council emphasized the demand for a budget increase for 2025

The Interuniversity Council emphasized the demand for a budget increase for 2025

October 29, 2024 – 19:44

The Budget project presented by the Government allocates 3.8 billion pesos to study centers, while the CIN assures that it needs 7.2 billion.

After a new meeting of the National Interuniversity Council (CIN)the authorities demanded an increase in the amount planned within the Budget 2025 to be able to have “a tool that gives predictability to the management of the university system“.

In that sense, they demanded to guarantee “a salary recomposition and recovery plan and the continuity of student assistance programs, the operation of training spaces, scientific and technological production and the development of extension lines.”

The ruling party assigned to the higher houses of study $3.8 billion, while the National Interuniversity Council (CIN) is asking to be able to function $7.2 billion. The budget difference lies in the lack of salary precision, which implies the main expense of the institutions.

Universities targeted “fake news to divert attention”

In turn, from the CIN They asked “not to generate fake news to divert attention from the real problem that the public university education“. The universities’ claim comes after the president Javier Milei stated: “In short, they mobilized resources of all kinds to set up the marches and used the students all over the country (with lies) so that they would not have to account for their expenses.

In this way, they emphasized that the focus must be on “definancing, with particular drama in salary matter“and they added: “We ask the national government for rationality and respect, the same that the university system has had until now. despite so much inconsideration and mistreatment“.

Finally, after the accusations by the president and other members of the ruling party, which they considered “unfounded”, the CIN He stressed that “there is no public entity more controlled than the university system and that this Council always considers it appropriate and responsible for this to be the case” and that “the national universities have always been audited and report monthly on the exercise of their budget.”

“We ratify that the body legally competent to carry out audits in the national universities is the General Audit of the Nation (AGN) and we make available to anyone who requires it the technical legal opinion that the CIN has been prepared for such purposes”.

Source: Ambito

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