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The formula agreed upon between the senators and the Executive involves adjusting the scores of the mandatory tests, between 2026 and 2029, in order to encourage admission to said career. Thinking about the need to facilitate the training of future teachers, the members approved and sent to Sala, the project that regulates new requirements to enter Pedagogy careers and programs. The initiative, presented by the Executive, aims to extend the application of the new requirements to enter Pedagogy careers and programs. The idea is to postpone the increase in requirements to study pedagogies established by Law 20,903 enacted in 2016 that creates the Teaching Professional Development System (SDPD). Said legal body raised the minimum entry score by more than 120 points. INDICATION The body voted on an indication presented by the Executive. The current law establishes that it is a requirement to enter a career in Pedagogy, to have taken the higher education access test or the instrument that replaces it, and to obtain a performance that places the student in the 60th percentile or higher taking into account the average of mandatory tests (Language and Communication, and Mathematical Competence 1). The indication approved by legislators unanimously adjusts this percentage. In this way, in the 2026 university admission process, it will be required to be in the 33rd percentile or higher; in 2027 admission, the 37th percentile or higher; 2028, at 42 or higher; and in 2029, in 47 or higher. Starting in 2023, what the law indicates is 60 or higher, which is equivalent to approximately 528 points. Added to this are the alternative requirements of being within the top 20% of NEM in the educational establishment, entering through Pedagogical Talent Attraction Programs (PATP), or being registered in the National Disability Registry. At the day, the Minister of Education, Nicolas Cataldo, was honest that I think the modification of the requirements should be done according to the reality of each region. The value of the score is not the same in the Metropolitan region, Valparaiso or Magallanes. Unfortunately for many years, we have been imposing requirements that we cannot meet. END OF THE CAE In the same session, the Education body continued the general discussion of the project in the second stage, which creates a new public financing instrument for higher education studies to replace the State Guaranteed Credit (CAE) (). On this occasion, the rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Juan Carlos de la Llera, was invited to hear their opinion of the norm; the president of the Council of Rectors of Professional Institutes and Vertebral Accredited Technical Training Centers, Sergio Morales; and the executive director of the Accion Educar study center, Daniel Rodriguez. In general terms, the speakers assured that higher education institutions will lose their autonomy by depending on state resources. Along these lines, they commented that the FES is a tax, it defunds universities, and overloads the treasury. They also described as dangerous the elimination of co-payment, the prohibition of prepayment, the elimination of scholarships and the exclusion of students in online modalities. These criticisms are complemented by those expressed in other hearings by the Comptrollers Office and the Autonomous Fiscal Council. The Commission will continue its round of hearings before voting on the rule.
