After Maurice Bull was appointed as the president of the Colombian Institute of Educational Credit and Technical Studies Abroad (Icetex), appointed by President Gustavo Petro and his mission will be to reform this entity.
Even the head of state during the presidential campaign assured that the Icetex could move to the stage of education abroadbecause his government would achieve greater and total coverage for young people from free higher education in public institutions.
In dialogues with W Radio, the president of Icetex referred to this, “in the mission entrusted to me by President Petro and Minister Alejandro Gaviria, it is important to profoundly transform the entity and organize all internal politics and the manuals that prevent officials from complying with these requests because they have no other option than to abide by the regulations.”
In addition, Mauricio Toro argued that since 2005, when it became a financial institution, it moved away from the human part and, on the contrary, it is rigid. With the above, the official intends change in depth each of the manuals. Second, it insinuates replace the financing line that Icetex has, which means that in some financing lines for students the rates are quite high.
And lastly you want one digital transformation “so that these processes can be done quickly through this platform and not that people have to go to the offices or have to be protected”, Toro pointed out for the mentioned medium.
It is worth mentioning that, on September 1, the Constitutional Court protected the rights to due process, equality and the vital minimum, in connection with the right to education, of a young man whom the Colombian Institute of Educational Credit and Technical Studies Abroad (Icetex) denied him the support subsidy.
Is about Christian Andres Lopez, a 27-year-old law student, who was always on the lookout for the financial support of the home. In response to the complaint filed against her, Icetex explained that the citizen did not request said subsidy at the time of initiating the process for the educational credit, but he did it when the credit had been renewed several times.
The ruling of the Constitutional Court granted Icetex 10 days to study the vulnerability situation of the plaintiff and determine whether or not he is entitled to receive the support subsidy. In the event that you benefit from financial aid, the entity must make the payment within five days following the decision adopted by the Icetex Credit Committee.
In this way, Toro pointed out on W Radio that Icetex cannot pretend that the situation of a family is stable and linear throughout the race and that is why it reaches humanize the entity“what the entity has to understand is that there are changes in family life and these situations have to be foreseen in order to guarantee that the student continues with their studies”, he indicated.
“Students must be accompanied, they must be understood, those lines of credit in which they have problems must be reviewed, because the final objective must be that the student completes the degree and can pay that credit at a fair rate.”, confessed the official when finding cases of inflexibility within the entity.
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