President Alberto Fernández presented the National Program for Investment in University Infrastructure 2019-2023, which will include 63 new works in 47 national universities, and that will allow to extend the coverage and improve the National University System, benefiting more than one and a half million students.
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He leader made the announcement from Olivos, accompanied by the ministers Nicolas Trotta (Education and Gabriel Katopodis (Public Works), and the rectors of the national universities involved in this program, who will demand a investment of more than 9.6 billion pesos, will have international financing from the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) and will generate 3,500 direct and 10,000 indirect jobs.
Fernandez was defined as a “proud son of public education”.
“I am a proud son of the University of Buenos Aires. It is the same as saying that I am a son of public education,” said the President.
“The future of nations is in knowledge. We enter a world where science and technology are increasingly becoming factors of power and development,” he said.
At the same time, he stated that the State has to provide “the necessary tools for children to take the path of knowledge,” and noted: “Many did a lot to make education in Argentina reach everyone. Belgrano, Sarmiento, they always thought that in knowledge was the future. “
“In recent years, some thought that public education was falling and that it was meaningless. You have to be a fool to not realize how important it is for a society like Argentina that education is a priority“he stressed.
The works will be carried out at universities in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and in 19 provinces, including Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chubut, Chaco, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Jujuy, La Pampa, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Neuquén, Río Negro , Salta, San Luis, San Juan, Santa Fe, Tierra del Fuego and Tucumán.
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