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Will they ask themselves if the entrance exam to higher education is eliminated but the baccalaureate exam remains?
The improvement in access is not to eliminate the exam, it is to increase the quotas. Did they increase the quotas?
The exams that each higher education institution will take, will they be free or will each student have to pay in each institution? How should I pay? Cash or in the bank? How much will it cost?
The government manages dozens of non-autonomous higher technological institutes. Will each institute carry out its own exam or will the government do one for all institutes?
CONAIE celebrates the elimination of an exam when it should be held to generate quotas or affirmative action scores for historic social debt for towns and nationalities, rural flag bearers, community leaders, among others.
Access to the public university - including real, non-rhetorical free access - can only be achieved with a substantial increase in the higher education budget. That doesn't happen.
The Lasso government has NOT recovered the budget levels for universities and institutes that existed in 2017. Moreno's cuts of hundreds of millions of dollars per year have been consolidated.
Universities today have to ask permission from the Minister of Finance, Pablo Arosemena, to make their expenses or to create an item. And the Ministry blocks and removes the budget when. Real autonomy to invest in education implies a constitutional amendment to art.299
If they do not increase the quotas with budget, the problem of lack of access will deepen. And popular anger will be even greater.
There will be no free entry. It will be expensive to apply to each U or Institute. The admission system made it easy to apply to 5 or more public universities in one go.
The social disappointment of lack of access will become individual disappointments, with profound effects on mental health. Low-income young people who cannot afford several entrance exams: at greater risk.
The correct policy was more quotas for access, more scholarships to guarantee it and more budget for higher education.
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