Today UniCABA be approved: 5 keys to understanding the project

After a year & # 39; debate, requests and changes, today the creation UniCABA will take shape. With automatic majority given by its legislature 34, the party decides will turn to the university teaching project in the City & # 39; Buenos Aires.

The approval, it is hoped, will come in & # 39; half the hostile climate. Since yesterday, the legislature of bonaerju is closed. It's that in the vicinity, teachers expect from Tuesday and during the vote there will be a protest to bring & # 39; tertiary students, secondary, teachers and unions, who even called a strike for Thursday.

Last Friday was the prelude to today's session. Between fights, insults and assaults, the lawmakers & # 39; Vamos Juntos signed opinion to discuss the project on the spot. Rejection of & # 39; good part of the educational community is added that opposition, Which will look next session before treatment & # 39; UniCABA, to discuss other educational projects, but will not get a quorum.

Soledad Acuña, Minister of Education & # 39; Buenos Aires, does not take rejection as a total. "I do not want niġġeneralizza, what we hear up here is the voice of & # 39; those who shout strongly and express themselves with & # 39; violent way, I am not convinced that the education community is against it. In private, many students and teachers express themselves in favor of the project, but do not feel in a space to express their position. There are almost authoritarian attitude of & # 39; thinking, "he said Infobae.

The initial project, presented on 22 & # 39; November 2017, was reformulated. F & # 39; & # 39 September; this year, the government has shown a new version bonaerju & # 39; what's called "Law of schooling education system and the creation of the Independent City University & # 39; Buenos Aires".

The first project proposed for the automatic termination of 29 public faculty of the City and its transfer to the university. The second modified version that point, the most controversial: now contemplating coexistence between tertiary and UniCABA new.

However, the refusal of & # 39; good part of maintaining educational community. "The second project will lead to further slow death focused on coexistence, The underfinancing and systems & # 39; control & # 39; state seen as the auditor, "read a statement signed by the CESGE, to gather staff rectors teachers.

With the approval of the law, the Ministry of Education & # 39; Buenos Aires will play a role as a regulator of the offer & # 39; teacher training. It is in charge of making the institutional assessment & # 39; each faculty and promote their self-assessment. Based on this, its officials will review and adapt the offer careers to the needs observed in classrooms, "always ensure the continuity of students in the course", according to the project.

Maximiliano Ferraro, the legislator for Vamos Juntos and chairman of the education committee, said: "The intention is to close the institutes. The evaluation will deliver and what will be proposed plan & # 39; improvement between the Ministry and the teaching staff.. The Humorous thing is that when we talk about evaluation we start from the assumption that it will be bad. And if you give them good? "

Although teachers do not trust this assessment, they are required to provide information. Otherwise, he warned that fines will suffer. It will also be required to articulate to & # 39; university b & # 39; & # 39 cycles; complementing, exchange & # 39; students and research support.

2) Guarantee & # 39; best teachers?

There are a few speeches, but it is the crux of the matter. Both seem obvious, it is associated with & # 39; university education with & # 39; best teacher, many scholars question. During the debate insisted that m & # 39; there is insufficient research to argue that the university system guarantees best teachers compared to the tertiary level.

F & # 39; this regard, Acuña said: "There is not much results & # 39; & # 39 evaluations; teachers, but if you measure what happens in classrooms there is a strong reality. All countries in the first 10 places of the PISA assessments have university education. In Argentina, one of the best performing provinces is La Pampa, whose teachers are mostly university students. With ngħidx are better, but we have a new institutional design that allows getting profiles & # 39; different teachers ".

From the beginning, the argument executive bonaerija was that & # 39; "to tiġeralizza" educational formation. "Train Teachers for the new profile & # 39; students in the education system", said. After that goal, ensuring that bet undergo further "innovative" model, b & # 39; interdisciplinary work based projects, merger & # 39; virtuality, use of & # 39; technologies and training in & # 39; socio-emotional skills.

3) youth Attraction

The city & # 39; Buenos Aires is an exception. Contrary to what happens in the rest of the country, where there is even over, m in the City & # 39; no teacher. The numbers vary, but the figure varies from 400-500 vacancy, according to official sources. The need led government & # 39; Buenos Aires to launch this year call for educators from internal and external; measure has not yet been published.

The wide variety of & # 39; & # 39 bids university, nothing to do small Buenos Aires choose other options, they believe. Part of the project is based on the idea generated proposal & # 39; renovation to attract children to finish high school that, in aspiration, see b & # 39; best eye-learning university.

The recurring criticism of the other project is budgetary. The UniCABA is mentioned in the 2019 budget, but it does not specify which match fit. "If there was only one point of the initial proposal was solid, they said where they got the money. Obviously we do not agree, but before now emerged from the institutes do not know. In addition to the critical diagnostics, is irresponsible tax project "Leandro Halperin, the legislature Evolution, told this media.

In Executive & # 39; Buenos Aires they claim it "University m & # 39; has allocated budget for 2019 to start operating in 2020.". For the periods set by the Law on Higher Education, they consider that they will need a year to go through the accreditation of the Secretariat of University Policies and CONEAU, as well as institutional project organization. Similarly, when it enters into force, to ensure that "not finance institutes".

5) Not only teacher training

The project has brought to recast, along with teachers, university training includes other careers. Together with the Ministry of Economy and Finance, working in detection & # 39; vacancies to offer career-related productive requirements of the Federal Capital.

Once the vote is taken, the institutional project will be outlined. Under his tenure will be organizing director – "a woman at best" – to be appointed by the governmentor Together, they define the academic offer, the operational status and staff. The process & # 39; accreditation will take a year, but midway evaluations for teachers enter into force.

Then, like any university, home studies and institutional autonomy and enjoy academic economic awarkija, financial and administrative.