Human Capital reached an agreement with the universities for the increase in budget items

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The Ministry of Human Capital reported this Thursday that it reached an agreement with representatives of national universities who have been complaining for budget cuts for a week.

The information was confirmed by the portfolio led by Sandra Pettovello through X (formerly Twitter). Until now, the directors of Argentina’s higher education houses assured that, by repeating the same amounts from the 2023 budget, the funds had been reduced in real terms, due to inflation.

Finally, at the closing of this Thursday, Human Capital reported that the allocations sent by the treasury will increase by 70% compared to the month of March and another equal percentage in the month of May, which totals a recomposition of 140%, according to to official data.

The Human Capital statement on National Universities

Below is the proposal agreed upon with the National Interuniversity Council:

1.- In accordance with the provisions of the national government, a 70% increase was established in March, bringing the allocation for operating expenses to $10,075,851,995 per month for national universities and another 70% in the month of May, reaching $14,224. 732,213 per month, totaling a 140% increase over the base allocation of $5,926,971,777 per month. In addition, an extraordinary amount of $14,403,479,661 was made available to meet the needs of the university hospitals.

2.-A meeting will be held at the Undersecretary of University Policies with the Executive Committee of the CIN (National Interuniversity Council) to talk about how, together, we will advance the changes that society demands, while at the same time we commit to achieving a quality university education.

3.-It was agreed to advance jointly between the national Government and the national universities, as indicated in article 2 of the Higher Education Law No. 24,521, in a joint audit program that improves and perfects the existing audit systems.

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