2024-07-18 20:30:13
The virtual president-elect of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum reported that in light of his proposal to eliminate the exam of the Metropolitan Commission of Public Institutions of Upper Secondary Education (Comipems), which designates places for applicants for Upper Secondary Education, will respect the autonomy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN).
In your opinion, for the future president of Mexico, the students They should not enter the baccalaureate by an exam, which allows them to apply for the school of their choice, as is currently the case, but to the school that is closest to their home.
However, the application for admission to high school It does not depend on the proximity to the students’ homes, but on the prestige and level, with the most popular schools being those in the National Polytechnic Institute and UNAM.
For example, in 2023, from a 128-question exam, to enter the UNAM High School No. 6 113 correct answers were requested, followed by Prepa 2, with 109; Prepa 5, with 105; Prepa 1, with 102, and CECyT 9, of the IPN, with 102.
Last year, 286,572 young people applied to enter a school through the exam. Comipems, UNAM and Poli schools were chosen as the first option by more than 50% of them.
Analysis
For specialists such as María Teresa Gutiérrez, spokesperson and director of Indicator Monitoring at Mexicanos Primero, the problem is not Comipems, but rather the schools most in demand for their level and prestige, such as the UNAM and the Polytechnic, have a limited amount of space.
“That’s the problem, there isn’t enough space for everyone who applies to enter them to have access,” he said in an interview with 24 HORAS.
He also stressed that the UNAM and the IPN They have to establish “what are the criteria that they are looking for from the students they want to enter” and warned that “they cannot be forced to lower the requirements that they have.”
In view of this, he considered that the solution “is to make a clear diagnosis on how new schools are going to be established, that is, if you want to choose the territorial criterion “We need to put more high schools in the municipalities where there are fewer spaces, that could be a first step.”
Although he also emphasized doing a thorough review of what the plans are, “the study programs that are working better within the diversity of subsystems of higher secondary education.”
Justification
In a press conference, the future president of Mexico explained that the Comipems exam should disappear because she does not agree that it should be an average that determines the school in which a student should study. adolescent.
“Why the exam should disappear” Comipems: It is a metropolitan exam, of course there are autonomous organizations like the UNAM who have to make their decision, because they have to make their decision autonomously,” he said.
He criticized that a young person leaving high school is forced to take an exam “and depending on the grade you have, you will be able to pass the exam.”and we are going to send them to one or another high school. From the age of 15 you are already saying that there are good schools and there are not so good schools and that, depending on your grade, I am going to send you to one or the other.”
The Comipems exam was created in 1995 in order to create a transparent and equitable selection process for the allocation of places in high school education in the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico.
It is also in charge of directing the single competition for the assignment to high schools of all applicants who want to enter one of the schools located in this area.
In this regard, the future president referred to how example the United States system where a student enters the school that is closest to his home, although he clarified that this is not necessarily the model to follow.
“In the United States you go to the high school that is closest to your house, even in many states in the United States, middle school and high school are together.”
Therefore, he said that the only thing that should be requested is the certificate issued by the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) and with that, enroll in the school closest to your home.
“The SEP has already given you a certificate that you have finished high school, so that certificate has to be taken into account to enter the next level. You don’t have to take another exam in high school. So my opinion is that that teenager or young person, depending, who finishes high school, Well, you should go to the high school that is closest to your house and just enroll.”.
In this same context, he reported that his project is to strengthen higher secondary education; he considered that there are federalized and state systems that have grown, “there are more than 20 systems in higher secondary education… Bachelors, Conalep CECATIS and from there a huge amount, in addition to high school and the CCH”.
He therefore warned that he will review the teaching staff, the salaries they earn and the study programs as well as their link with the productive sector.
In addition to building more high schools.There should be the same number of high schools in the country as there are secondary schools.there should not be less high schools than secondary schools, if young people, after completing secondary school, a teenager, should have the right to enter high school and not have to take exams, but simply go to the high school closest to their home. So more high schools and a review of the Study Plan,” he stressed.
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2024-07-18 20:30:13