The Center for Economic Research and Teaching The next semester will be taught entirely remotely to give certainty to the students and teachers and have adequate planning, after the 75% cut in operating expenses, the director of the CIDE, Sergio López Ayllón.
In an interview in Así las cosas, on W Radio, he pointed out that in CIDE, as in other centers and the public administration, there is a 75% reduction in operating expenses for the rest of the year, which implies that they will be in minimal operation, “for many dependencies not having to pay the rent and honoring the contracts they already had signed”.
He explained that in the case of CIDE, he will have a very complicated situation because he already had a limited budget, so he will enter a “war economy”, where he will have to use the few resources to maintain the minimum operation, pay property, water, electricity, basic services and payroll. “We are not going to have resources for anything else,” he said.
“It is not just for CIDE, it is for all centers, it is for Conacyt and the entire federal public administration is strictly applying the 75% reduction in operating expenses for the rest of the year; for you to have a dimension of what this implies, it is the largest cut that there is probably a memory of the public administration in all of history, ”he commented.
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López Ayllon pointed out that this is similar or close to a government shutdown because the agencies will not have the resources to operate.
“The dependencies will not have to operate; that is the situation that the entire federal public administration is facing as a result of the presidential memorandum of April 23, ”he said.
He commented that through the Conacyt they have asked him for a detailed report of the critical games and to know what happens if they are left without resources.
He noted that CIDE had already made the decision to take the semester virtually because there is no certainty of how the Covid-19 pandemic will evolve, but commented that there are other activities such as publications, computer services that will be reduced to zero.
“We are in a dialogue through Conacyt with the Ministry of Finance to assess what the scope is, the impact that all these items could leave without resources. We are in that process and we still don’t know what the result will be. ”
According to the disappearance of trustSergio López commented that CIDE remains in a “catatonic state” because they are going to be able to mitigate some effects of the cut through the use of some trusts that “are reserves for this type of hypothesis.”
“Without science and technology the country will not come out of the crisis; Let us admit that we are in a deep sanitary and economic crisis, and we are going to live difficult months, probably even years … Today to come out of the pandemic it depends on scientific research, that they are capable of producing a vaccine, “he said.
CIDE became a trend on Wednesday morning; Members of the community published an email that sent them the address of the Center.
CIDE informs its academic community by email
The Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) will have a cut of 75% of its budget. This was reported by Dr. Sergio López Ayllón, director of said center, to the members of the academic community through an email that I sent them yesterday afternoon.
In his communication, López Ayllón points out that as a result of the general measures adopted by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit for the Federal public administration, the public research centers (CPI) are fluid, “we will have a 75% cut in operating spending of CIDE ”.
“It is a very significant cut that will have consequences in the daily life of CIDE during the rest of the year. For this reason, we are building a scenario that guarantees the minimum indispensable operation of CIDE, giving priority to the spending associated with teaching programs, including scholarships. ”
Specifies that in next days will announce the concrete measures which will be adopted from August 2020, “I ask for your understanding, patience and solidarity in order to face this exceptional situation together.”
According to scientists and researchers informally consulted for this note, the cut adds to the initiative to extinguish trusts that the National Regeneration Movement party (MORENA) presented to the Chamber of Deputies, which could ultimately compromise the operation of CIDE and from other CPIs.
“It is not all against CIDE, it is against all centers,” they noted.
He also reported that before the ration of the Covid-19 pandemic, The determination was made that for the fall semester the remote teaching modality will be adopted for all the teaching programs in both headquarters of the center.
To achieve this objective, teachers will be given training in redesigning courses, workshops will be given to teachers and students on the use of platforms; classrooms will be equipped for remote teaching and computer rooms will be set up for students; and the development of the semester and performance of each student will be monitored.
With information from Teresa Moreno
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