After several months of discussion, the various sectors of the Broad Front to agree and agreed the final text of the controversial Education Act. Under the new law, the government intends to form an integrated educational system, as understood currently it is very fragmented.
The committee that created the Frente Amplio Congress late last year to analyze the law, managed to settle the most controversial of the reform: the integration of the codex and decentralized councils.
The New Space deputy and member of the Committee on Education, Diego Canepa, said this morning at index 810 that the Frente Amplio reached "political agreement" in which the term first executive position and most sectors of the left coalition.
This forced the MPP and the Party Communist to budge on his claim that the bodies had total autonomy of political power.
The deputy noted that these sectors, "although they think the same, they prioritized the political agreement", while the government gave in to make no changes as deep "as I wanted at first. Canepa
said Monday the project will be considered by the Board Policy and in the coming days will begin to be discussed in Parliament.
explained that he decided to keep the majority for the Executive to ensure the sustainability of plans and the consistency with draft the country with the government.
"We must be very clear that they have had a balance, with a majority of the Executive Branch of turn, which represents the focal project of education that people vote in the election legitimately. The participation of teachers in government education allows us to have the ability in the most profound changes Uruguayan education needs, teachers are participles of it. You can not change and make profound changes in public education if the education stakeholders are not committed, are not convinced, are not part of that process of change, "said the deputy.
The Codex will have five members, three are appointed by the Executive and the other two will be elected by teachers, who currently have no representation on the boards of education.
Councils and Primary Education, Basic Media, High School and UTU, will comprise three members. Two of them are appointed by the Codex and the remaining will be elected by teachers.
The Boards of Secondary Education, Higher UTU includes news that is incorporated, also a student representative who is not more than 20 years of age.
The law provides for changes in secondary education.
aim is to design a middle school where high school and are more integrated UTU providing additional knowledge to enable a student to have "flexibility" to move from one level to another.
also seek to delay the decision of teenagers have to choose between high school and the UTU.
One option, as in other countries, according to Canepa said, is that children have more years of school and that the decision between high school and UTU, and in turn, the choice of a career "is passed to more ahead. "
"It will be the design of secondary education in Uruguay, with an average basic and upper basic half means we can break that pattern of separation that exists in Uruguay, where at a certain age, very young, is makes a fictitious separation between manual and intellectual, as if the child can not have the option of a dual education, both practically and in his intellect, which later allows him not to make a decision at 14, 15 years on what his vocation, but forward, "said Canepa.
He emphasized that the law promotes a great "mobility" between different orientations, so that the student will not have to start over to change direction.
"We have to understand what the new institutions created is a much more flexible, with a more horizontal, with the possibility of moving from one place to another more easily, and not to the watertight compartments which we find ourselves they do that often, after certain options, be very difficult to go back, because when you want at one point that he really wants to move to another garden of the teaching is very complex and will make you start all the way back . This is a recording problem in Uruguay, the redesign should help to generate institutional education more flexible and adaptable to the interests that exist today. "
There are also changes at the primary level. Education reform aims to extend the school day to five hours a day-today are four-and early education is compulsory from age 3.
"We have to understand what the new institutions created is a much more flexible, with a more horizontal, with the possibility of moving from one place to another more easily, and not to the watertight compartments which we find ourselves they do that often, after certain options, be very difficult to go back, because when you want at one point that he really wants to move to another garden of the teaching is very complex and will make you start all the way back. This is a serious problem in Uruguay, the institutional redesign should help create a more flexible education and according to the interests that exist today, "explained the legislature.
Another innovation is the creation of an autonomous, independent and Anep UDELAR, which is responsible for the training of teachers and raise the discipline at university level.
also create a Higher Technical Institute, which shall consist of polytechnics across the country that will university status to various technical programs that now the state dictates.
other hand, will create a National Evaluation Institute, a legal person of public law, not state, which shall consist of a thin, Ministry of Education, three of the ANEP and two from the University of the Republic a private education.
Its mission will be to assess, externally, the quality of education through specific studies and research lines.
On Monday, the Education Law will be analyzed by the Political Bureau, and then get endorsement of the party organ, will begin to be debated in Parliament.
Canepa said
opens dialogue with the National Party and the Colorado Party. He acknowledged that while there will be differences, the Education Act may gather important matches and applied effectively.
However, the law is rejected by the education unions who threaten strikes and demand greater participation in the organs.
The Executive Board of the Guild of secondary school teachers (Fenapo) is meeting at this time analyzing the text of the law that ended up closing the FA.
leader José Olivera confirmed this morning at 810 Index that next Monday will hold a 24-hour strike in support of his colleagues in the Liceo 62, but also against the government's Education Act.
that day return to set up a tent outside the Legislative Palace, where in a few days will begin to debate the law.
Olivera explained that the teachers question the law has been prepared by the government and not by teachers, which in turn is desoiga as resolved by the Education Congress.
"This draft agreement reached by the Frente Amplio broadly maintaining the essence of the original project emanated from the Council of Ministers. Second, in the outcome document of the committee are large errors in what he has to do with the legislative technique, with the drafting of the project, confusion misquoted articles, a number of themes rather desporolijo this document to analyze it seriously. Third, what is most worrying is that all this time, obviously the political force dedicated to agree within the political force but not to create spaces with some partners such as unions or the student movement, or the assemblies technical teachers, to achieve some agreement on the essential contents of this bill, "said Olivera.
Source: El Espectador.
The committee that created the Frente Amplio Congress late last year to analyze the law, managed to settle the most controversial of the reform: the integration of the codex and decentralized councils.
The New Space deputy and member of the Committee on Education, Diego Canepa, said this morning at index 810 that the Frente Amplio reached "political agreement" in which the term first executive position and most sectors of the left coalition.
This forced the MPP and the Party Communist to budge on his claim that the bodies had total autonomy of political power.
The deputy noted that these sectors, "although they think the same, they prioritized the political agreement", while the government gave in to make no changes as deep "as I wanted at first. Canepa
said Monday the project will be considered by the Board Policy and in the coming days will begin to be discussed in Parliament.
explained that he decided to keep the majority for the Executive to ensure the sustainability of plans and the consistency with draft the country with the government.
"We must be very clear that they have had a balance, with a majority of the Executive Branch of turn, which represents the focal project of education that people vote in the election legitimately. The participation of teachers in government education allows us to have the ability in the most profound changes Uruguayan education needs, teachers are participles of it. You can not change and make profound changes in public education if the education stakeholders are not committed, are not convinced, are not part of that process of change, "said the deputy.
The Codex will have five members, three are appointed by the Executive and the other two will be elected by teachers, who currently have no representation on the boards of education.
Councils and Primary Education, Basic Media, High School and UTU, will comprise three members. Two of them are appointed by the Codex and the remaining will be elected by teachers.
The Boards of Secondary Education, Higher UTU includes news that is incorporated, also a student representative who is not more than 20 years of age.
The law provides for changes in secondary education.
aim is to design a middle school where high school and are more integrated UTU providing additional knowledge to enable a student to have "flexibility" to move from one level to another.
also seek to delay the decision of teenagers have to choose between high school and the UTU.
One option, as in other countries, according to Canepa said, is that children have more years of school and that the decision between high school and UTU, and in turn, the choice of a career "is passed to more ahead. "
"It will be the design of secondary education in Uruguay, with an average basic and upper basic half means we can break that pattern of separation that exists in Uruguay, where at a certain age, very young, is makes a fictitious separation between manual and intellectual, as if the child can not have the option of a dual education, both practically and in his intellect, which later allows him not to make a decision at 14, 15 years on what his vocation, but forward, "said Canepa.
He emphasized that the law promotes a great "mobility" between different orientations, so that the student will not have to start over to change direction.
"We have to understand what the new institutions created is a much more flexible, with a more horizontal, with the possibility of moving from one place to another more easily, and not to the watertight compartments which we find ourselves they do that often, after certain options, be very difficult to go back, because when you want at one point that he really wants to move to another garden of the teaching is very complex and will make you start all the way back . This is a recording problem in Uruguay, the redesign should help to generate institutional education more flexible and adaptable to the interests that exist today. "
There are also changes at the primary level. Education reform aims to extend the school day to five hours a day-today are four-and early education is compulsory from age 3.
"We have to understand what the new institutions created is a much more flexible, with a more horizontal, with the possibility of moving from one place to another more easily, and not to the watertight compartments which we find ourselves they do that often, after certain options, be very difficult to go back, because when you want at one point that he really wants to move to another garden of the teaching is very complex and will make you start all the way back. This is a serious problem in Uruguay, the institutional redesign should help create a more flexible education and according to the interests that exist today, "explained the legislature.
Another innovation is the creation of an autonomous, independent and Anep UDELAR, which is responsible for the training of teachers and raise the discipline at university level.
also create a Higher Technical Institute, which shall consist of polytechnics across the country that will university status to various technical programs that now the state dictates.
other hand, will create a National Evaluation Institute, a legal person of public law, not state, which shall consist of a thin, Ministry of Education, three of the ANEP and two from the University of the Republic a private education.
Its mission will be to assess, externally, the quality of education through specific studies and research lines.
On Monday, the Education Law will be analyzed by the Political Bureau, and then get endorsement of the party organ, will begin to be debated in Parliament.
Canepa said
opens dialogue with the National Party and the Colorado Party. He acknowledged that while there will be differences, the Education Act may gather important matches and applied effectively.
However, the law is rejected by the education unions who threaten strikes and demand greater participation in the organs.
The Executive Board of the Guild of secondary school teachers (Fenapo) is meeting at this time analyzing the text of the law that ended up closing the FA.
leader José Olivera confirmed this morning at 810 Index that next Monday will hold a 24-hour strike in support of his colleagues in the Liceo 62, but also against the government's Education Act.
that day return to set up a tent outside the Legislative Palace, where in a few days will begin to debate the law.
Olivera explained that the teachers question the law has been prepared by the government and not by teachers, which in turn is desoiga as resolved by the Education Congress.
"This draft agreement reached by the Frente Amplio broadly maintaining the essence of the original project emanated from the Council of Ministers. Second, in the outcome document of the committee are large errors in what he has to do with the legislative technique, with the drafting of the project, confusion misquoted articles, a number of themes rather desporolijo this document to analyze it seriously. Third, what is most worrying is that all this time, obviously the political force dedicated to agree within the political force but not to create spaces with some partners such as unions or the student movement, or the assemblies technical teachers, to achieve some agreement on the essential contents of this bill, "said Olivera.
Source: El Espectador.
