📋 Tender Overview
The Minister of Education, Senator Yasna Provoste, rectors of Universities and regional authorities, among others, met in the National Congress to evaluate the diagnoses and lines of action to follow to enhance and recover educational quality. The evaluation day was extended for more than four hours in which the governance of the so-called Atacama Plan evaluated and learned about the lines to follow to enhance education in the Atacama region. On the occasion, the Minister of Education, Nicolas Cataldo; Senator Yasna Provoste; the Governor of Atacama, Miguel Vargas; the rectors of the Catholic University of Valparaiso, Nelson Vasquez; from the Federico Santa Maria Technical University, Juan Yuz and from the UMCE, Solange Tenorio; The Director of Public Education, Rodrigo Egana, more SLEPS Atacama and Huasco directors and the regional directorate of the College of Teachers, analyzed the Pedagogical Promotion line of the Atacama Plan to recover educational quality. After the various interventions, Senator Yasna Provoste, who is also a member of the Education Commission of the Upper House, stated that the Atacama Plan this 2025 has already started and was a reality in terms of pedagogical work with directors and classroom teachers of the public schools of Atacama and the commitment of the MINEDUC and the Regional Government of Atacama has been achieved so that in 2026 we have the financial resources to give continuity to the Atacama Plan. Meanwhile, the Minister of Education Nicolas Cataldo pointed out that the Atacama Plan is a State policy that must continue as a model for the New Public Education throughout the country. PEDAGOGICAL LINE The Universities - in charge of the pedagogical plan - highlighted that the 2025 plan was focused on strengthening management leadership and teaching teams to update the level of pedagogical skills that allow improving the learning of Atacama students. At the School Coexistence level, there was a training program aimed at improving the relationship between students and the teaching teams in the region. A line of updating was also developed in the professional technical colleges that the Santa Maria Technical University implemented with the support of CODELCO that considered programs to bring closer to the productive life of the region. Regarding the evaluation of the actors of the territory (SLEPS Huasco and Atacama) and the College of Teachers, they valued the quality of the workshops, seminars and workshops that were implemented to reduce the gaps in teacher training and clearly highlighted that this was a tremendous opportunity to be able to make a qualitative leap in terms of teacher improvement that should bear fruit to improve educational quality in Atacama. In addition, there was consensus on the importance of continuing this updating effort in 2026 for management teams and classroom teachers, that the challenge is to expand this pedagogical plan for next year. Regarding the continuity of the Atacama Plan, both in pedagogy and in terms of School Infrastructure, it was reported that in the first part of the year it will be carried out with resources from the MINEDUC, which will reach close to 500 million, so that in the second semester it will be connected with the financing that will be provided by the Regional Government of Atacama from the Productivity and Development Fund. In this way, the Atacama Plan in its pedagogical line as well as in school infrastructure will continue with this double support from MINEDUC and the Regional Government of Atacama that was ratified in this work session. In this sense, the regional governor of Atacama, Miguel Vargas, committed to the education of Atacama and secured the necessary resources for the universities to execute the Atacama Plan 2026. We are advancing in the 2026 phase of the Atacama Plan and we hope that the investment in equipment will be reviewed by the universities in charge, before the Regional Council approves the resources, he pointed out. Furthermore, the governor clarified that regardless of the change of government, in infrastructure issues of the Atacama Plan, there is the Mineduc-Mop agreement, to which the regional government is added with the programming agreements for Huasco and Atacama. Finally, the Minister of Education, Nicolas Cataldo, who participated throughout the day, valued the work carried out in Atacama and clarified that the Atacama Plan is a State policy that must continue as a model for the New Public Education throughout the country.
