Schools will keep enrollment open for students returning to the country

Published at: 31/10/2024 10:40 PM

This Thursday, the Minister of Education, Héctor Rodríguez, reiterated that the enrollment process in schools and high schools must remain active all year round to guarantee training for young people and children who are returning to the country.

Rodríguez said that in Miranda state alone, some 1,500 students have returned to the country, mostly without identification documents, who must return to classes.

For this, the young person must be evaluated, included in a grading classroom and then incorporated into the appropriate system, he said.

This was stated during a working table with representatives of universities that teach careers in the educational area.

In this regard, the minister stressed that the education system must have, for its proper functioning, a teacher for every 20 students and a worker (mother or father cook, worker, among others) for every 30 students.

Rodríguez also pointed out that it remains a priority to build a methodology to know how many students outside the school system to look for in each territory, in order to incorporate them.

Active schools

He also insisted on the need to move from the mosaic schedule to the full schedule and confirmed that 94% of schools are already meeting this objective.

Regarding retired teachers, he indicated that it is not mandatory for them to return to teaching.

“There is a resolution so that anyone who wants to do so does not have to give up their retirement if they want to do so,” he said.

He added, “We are not going to fill classrooms with people who are not professionally trained”

In this regard, he urged professionals from other areas who want to teach classes to do the teaching component. At the same time, he considered the need to evaluate alternatives for schools to work, regardless of Venezuela's economic system that continues to recover.

Finally, he asserted that the Ministry of Education will generate a debate on social networks, a discussion on the effects of digital platforms on children's learning, in order to generate proposals and submit them to the National Assembly.

Mazo News Team