Coyhaique-. Several questions, observations and suggestions regarding the work carried out in a pandemic by the Seremi de Educación Aysén, carried out the Regional Comptroller’s Office, in the report 761/2021 of December 16, which aimed to verify the actions destined to give continuity to the service of education to students of schools and high schools in the region in the period of the Covid-19 pandemic, after the suspension of face-to-face classes.
In this sense, among the main results of the audit, it is noted that the institution does not have “a registry that contains the details of the students benefited or who have continued their regular studies, during the period under examination, in the Region of Aysén through the plans “I learn online” and “I learn at home”, noting that it does not have information that allows to carry out the registration and control of the different activities that students develop “.
The aforementioned plans are complementary and are physical material in the case of I learn at home and online for I learn online, intended for those who have an internet connection.
In this way, the Comptroller’s Office confirmed that the Aysén Education Seremi did not carry out visits and supervisions to verify compliance with the aforementioned plans, “in the correct delivery of the educational material acquired with the public resources involved received from the Undersecretariat of Education.”
Thus, the entity must “adopt the measures in order to supervise and coordinate with other organizations, the correct delivery of the benefits to the students of the Aysén Region.”
On the other hand, a difference of 341 missing brochures was detected, “for the above reasons, the public department must inform documented the destination of the 341 missing booklets.” Likewise, the Seremi “shall instruct the respective rigorous disciplinary procedure, in order to establish the possible responsibilities of the officials who, with their actions or omissions, allowed the occurrence of the events represented, sending a copy of the administrative act that provides it to the Monitoring Unit of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, within a period of 15 business days, counted from the receipt of this report ”.
Something of utmost importance for areas such as Aysén is digital connectivity, where the Seremi de Educación “did not have a registry of students from the Aysén Region with connectivity problems to access the distance education modality due to lack of access. to the Internet from their homes ”.
In this way, the controlling body suggests that the necessary measures be adopted in order to have said cadastre or registry and specifically, “generate the actions that are necessary to give continuity to the educational process of those students who live in homes or belong to localities that have little or no connectivity to access digital resources ”. Beneficiary educational establishments were noted that they did not receive the material corresponding to the Aprendo en Casa plan and, therefore, measures should be taken in this regard.
Education hopes to solve the irregularities
From the Education Seremi they warned that “indeed, in the context of the pandemic that we face as a country, the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, within its role and powers, carried out an audit of the institutional functions implemented by the country’s Education Seremias to give continuity at the service of education to students from first grade to fourth grade enrolled for the year 2020 in Educational Establishments recognized by the Ministry of Education in the country, within the framework of the suspension of face-to-face classes due to the state of catastrophe decreed as a result of the Pandemic associated with Covid-19 ”, said Sergio Becerra Mera, Seremi of Education.
They also acknowledged that after the audit, the Aysén Regional Comptroller’s Office in its final report issued on December 16 made some observations “specific to internal administrative processes, which in no case means that any irregularity has been incurred.”
Specifically, endorsements for the delivery of printed material to educational establishments are requested, “which exist,” said Becerra Mera. “As a service, we are compiling all the information to respond in a timely manner to the observations raised by the controlling body for which we have until March 10,” declared the highest education authority in the region.
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