During the meeting of Parliamentary Work, After hours of discussion, the Senate bloc leaders and the vice president Victoria Villarruel They finally reached an agreement that The session this Thursday will be heldwhich will discuss educational financing and the modification of the ballot project, which have been partially approved by the House of Representatives. The debate will begin at 2 p.m.
The educational financing project, which recognizes the insufficiency of the 16% teacher salary increase, has already been partially approved by the Chamber of Deputies. The Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos, has already anticipated that President Javier Milei will try to veto the regulation if it is fully approved by the Upper House.
What is the university financing law?
The project was presented by the Radical Civic Union (UCR) and bears the principal signature of Danya Tavela and other legislators such as Facundo Manes, Martin Tetaz, Mariela Coletta, Margarita Stolbizer and Nicolas Massot.
The main objective of the rule is to declare a budgetary emergency for the national university system for this year. Within this framework, the regulation seeks to “mitigate, in the face of the increase in the costs of essential goods and services, the impact they have on salary commitments and the operating expenses of all national universities.”
If the project is approved, it will be assigned: 85% for salary expenses and 15% for operating expensesIn the case of operating expenses, a formula will be used that combines the CPI with the variation in the exchange rate and the variation in public service rates.
The UBA community asked the senators to approve the University Financing Law
After the Superior Council of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) asked the senators to approve the University Financing Act (which will be discussed this Thursday in the Upper House) this time several sectors of the university expressed themselves on the matter.
The Vice-Chancellor of the UBA Emiliano Yacobitti He said in this regard: “The responsibility in this case no longer lies with the president. of the Nation, but of the Chamber of Deputies, which has already given it half sanction, and the senators, who will meet this Thursday 12th. We need them to vote on the law to update the salaries of university professors, because “The situation is truly worrying.”
In line with that, he remarked: “Many teachers are giving up some hours to teach them in the City of Buenos Aires or in the Province of Buenos Airesbecause with the difference in salary updates, they are earning 30% more there. That is something that has never happened, the purchasing power of a university professor, who already did not have a good salary, fell between 35 and 55 percent in eight months“.
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