During the six-year period, 330 thousand new places in public and free higher education institutions, announced the president Claudia Sheinbaum.
The president also announced, in her morning conference, that the a budget of around 5 billion additional pesos for the new schoolsfrom basic education to higher education.
The new professional-level spaces will be created in the Rosario Castellanos Universitythe Health University and the Benito Juárez García Wellbeing Universities, in which 90 campuses will be created, as well as the National Technological Institute of Mexico and the National Polytechnic Institute.
According to the head of the Executive, for years spaces for public universities were closed, which – she said – “was part of the neoliberal model that did not consider education as a right, but as a privilege.”
In that sense, he recalled that “those who passed an admission exam had the possibility of studying at the university or at a polytechnic institute. In reality the admission exams They were nothing more than a funnel and it is not that the students were not prepared.”
The Secretary of Public Education, Mario Delgadospecified that the Rosario Castellanos University will create 30 new headquarters and 150 thousand new placesto have a total enrollment of 206 thousand spaces.
Likewise, the Health University will create 10 new headquarters and 25 thousand new spacesto reach a total enrollment of 29 thousand; the Benito Juárez García Wellbeing universities will create 50 new headquarters and 40 thousand new placesto reach a total enrollment of 110 thousand spaces.
The National Technology of Mexico will only create 85 thousand new spacesand the National Polytechnic Institute, 30 thousand new places.
Rosaura Ruizwho will head the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation, reported that, in its first phase, it will be enabled in Comitán, Chiapasa campus of the Rosario Castellanos National University, while in Tijuana, Baja Californiaa campus from the Universidad de la Salud and one from Rosario Castellanos will be created.
He indicated that the schools will be created in the Wellbeing Poles and will offer a degree in foreign trade, economics and sustainable development, engineering in renewable energy for development and postgraduate degrees in education and culture of peace.
