Carlos Torrendell pointed out that universities must move towards “true autonomy”. The Government has ratified its total veto of the law on university funding.
The Secretary of Education, Carlos Torrendell, He referred to the university conflict and pointed out that the educational institutions have to move towards “true autonomy” and stop being at the “service of partial interests”. According to what they confirmed Official sources told Ámbito that the Government maintains its position that President Javier Milei’s veto of the financing law “will be total.”
The national official gave a speech at an event at the Libertador Hotel, organized by the Rotary Club. “We have to move from universities dependent on partisan politics and the governments in power, through the logic of the budget, to true university autonomy that implies their de-corporatization and economic self-sufficiency,” he said. He added: “We insist that there is no problem with universities, quite the opposite, in the Government we certainly come from universities, we want universities.”
In this regard, Torrendell said: “We have to strengthen universities and not use them or put them at the service of partial interests. Universities have enormous merit, many teachers, students, researchers have developed despite many institutional problems that exist in universities, which are public and notorious, there is no need to detail them perhaps.”
As for the educational financing lawrepeated Javier Milei’s argument regarding the fact that the project approved by the opposition does not specify which items would be cut to generate the resources. “When resources are applied to an object, the source of financing must be seen, and that is not specified in the law that was approved,” he said. “It is not up to me to give an opinion, but the issue is what we are going to stop spending on. The same thing happens with next year’s Budget, where regarding the university budget they already say that it is insufficient… perfect, let Congress define where it will come from,” he said, and affirmed that Milei’s veto will be total.
Regarding funding, Torrendell said: “In the education funding paradigm, I learned at the UCA in particular by studying the issues of educational policy but also in university life, that ultimately the political philosophy of an institution is expressed in its budget and in its funding dynamics.” “You see where the priorities and designs are that allow some things to happen and others not; so we have to move from a financing centered on the supply, centered on distributing resources but without any type of evaluation or implementation dynamics or an incentive structure that allows achieving results to a financing that is integrated with the financing of demand.”
In this regard, he elaborated: “This does not only involve the issue of vouchers, one can think of many resource distributions that were previously done centrally and now we can combine centralized systems with decentralized systems, for example the book policy.”
In conclusion, the Secretary of Education said: “The central problem is a crisis of meaning that has to do with the right to education. It is true that the crisis of meaning in Argentina impacts many fields, and it does not seem to be just a problem of education.”
Source: Ambito
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