He Ministry of Education and Culture announced that they are studying the possibility of allowing the merger of the private educational institutions who are in the middle of a crisis due to the lowering of registrations.
“There are things that have to be done from State and there are things that the institutions themselves have to do,” he said. Pablo Da Silveira, minister of Education and Culture. In that sense, he assured that “there are a series of proposals on the table,” and commented on some of the solutions proposed in other countries, such as the merger of the Private schoolswhich could be applied in the Uruguay.
However, he assured that, although the State has to try to create the best conditions, “the solutions have to come from the actors themselves.”
On the other hand, he referred to the fact that the government private schools receive help, such as tax exemptions, although he admitted that one of the reasons why the institutions are in a compromised situation refers to the low birth rate in the country. Uruguay.
At the end of last year, three private schools closed in the country: the Ceija School in Paso de la Arena, the Constructivist Comprehensive Education Center (CEIC) in Aires Puros and the bilingual New Zealand School in Carrasco Norte.
What are the solutions proposed by the sector?
The Uruguayan Association of Catholic Education (Audec) and the Association of Private Education Institutes (Aidep) are those that bring together 220 centers of the more than 300 private schools that the Uruguay. There, between primary, initial and secondary, 113,000 people study.
Audec is considering the possibility of merging schools before closing them. “Before making a closure, leaving families without coverage, leaving students without reference groups, and teachers without sources of work, we seek to see to what extent we can make absorptions and serve the people,” he said. Juan Achard, deputy national director of Audec to El País.
In that sense, he assured that the educational centers were being asked to begin communicating with the association to be able to think of a solution. “Before one survives or they begin to break, Let’s see if we can put something together,” said the director who represents more than 160 private schools.
Achard added that the most worrying situation is that of private schools in the interior of the Uruguay since they are few, with smaller infrastructures and with fewer resources. Meanwhile, from Aidep – in charge of nuclear more than 60 private educational centers – they assured that they have no plans, for the moment, to implement the merger of schools.
Source: Ambito
