President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that 55 new campuses of the Benito Juárez Welfare Universities will be built, to reach a total of 200 campuses.
“There are 145 schools in the country; we’re going to get to 200. Nothing more than we are going to ask the teacher Raquel that the new ones, which are going to be 55 more, that they be made to be of Medicine and Nursing, because we lack doctors in the country, “said the president.
The president inaugurated the armoury campus, Colima; and promised that all those who graduate in his six-year term will have a guaranteed place in the government.
General evaluation of Universities for the Welfare Benito Juárez, from Armería, Colima https://t.co/m7vKz6ycx3
— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) August 6, 2022
López Obrador said that the budget for the new headquarters is guaranteed, because thanks to the savings, more can be built with less money.
“Here you have this university, which gives me great pleasure, the truth, because look how beautiful, how well built. In addition, there is no corruption and therefore the cost is something incredible, because if it were done with the corruption system of before because they are contracts and end the works costing a lot, sometimes they are unfinished, they are not done well and these works are well done and are done with republican austerity. If this school were made in the system of corruption that prevailed, instead of doing this school in, I know, how much did the construction cost?, thirteen million, they would charge 50. So with 13 you make almost four,” he said.
Welfare Universities: Numeralia
During the presentation of the national balance of the Benito Juárez García Universities for Welfare, the general director of the system, Raquel Sosa Elízaga, said that the federal government has allocated four billion pesos to the installation, equipment and operation of the 145 educational venues.
The official stressed that 63 percent of the budget is given to mothers and fathers organized in commissions, and each campus has an approximate cost of 13 million pesos.
He emphasized the growth of enrollment, which began with 14,000 students and now has more than 64,000, of which 62 percent are women and 38 percent are men.
Regarding teachers, these universities started with a staff of 623; and now has one thousand 733; for this school year it is expected to have 2 thousand 300.
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