Avanza dehumanization and modernization of education in the UNAM.
"Today, the country faces some challenges ever. Challenges that relate to claims that resulted in historic struggles. Our deeds have been incomplete to the extent that persist for large sections of the Mexican population living in poverty and exclusion, and a marked social and economic inequality, one of whose terms are manifested only in the best case, one in three young people have the possibility to study in higher education " 1 .
This has expressed the rector of the University National a few months ago, mentioning the role which our educational institution in the context of current crisis and highlighting the contributions we've made as a community college in the modern history of Mexico.
Along with these statements and not match their good intentions into the UNAM university officials quietly pushing reforms in line "to the great challenges of the century" and the "new world order" 2 ( sic), which are euphemisms to refer to neo-liberalism's economic plans, which are responsible for the debacle of the country's social and material.
The reform package is made from modifications to the Staff Academic 3 , loss of employment rights at the expense of union workers, to the mutilation of the plans and curricula, a situation that affects us directly to the entire student community to diminish the quality of education and raise the academic load filters to narrow the resource students or scarce resources, without this necessarily means that we can insert more easily or better conditions in the labor market.
The university authorities on the facts contradict his speech in favor of education and an integral part of the preamble to the Draft Amendment to the Plan Programs and Studies Law Degree (with date of approval by the Technical Council April 8, 2010), as they have promoted further loss gradually the area of \u200b\u200bsocial law, removing the common core subjects or fusing.
has also played down the public law when We are in the midst of a severe crisis of the Mexican state, include the elimination theory of matter Policy.
These are not new ideas or own Technical and Academic Council, if we investigate further are actually the product of rules issued by international financial organizations like the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD) to developing countries like ours, that an attack against university autonomy provided for in Article 3 of the Constitution, section VII, the authorities simply abide by and enforce the community.
A variety of documents and testimonies that prove this, for example, articles from the World Bank Technical Paper, no. 78, 1988 or the document Examination of national education policies: Mexico, Higher Education, OECD, 1997.
Given the historical failure of these international organizations that contributed greatly to engulf much of humanity in the current crisis of the capitalist system should question whether to follow his "recommendations", though they are camouflaged within the UNAM as "required updates" (Who?) and taken, they say, after extensive "consultation to students" 4 .
We are in favor of reform plans and curricula, but not in the sense intended by the authorities to commercialize knowledge, do a few, using education to benefit the powerful business as usual and keep intact the foundations of legal and social system in Mexico that shows daily failure.
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1 Gaceta UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 4285: 32.
2 Draft Amendment to the Plan and Program for the Study of Law degree. Law Faculty, UNAM. The document was submitted to review by the Academic Council of Social Sciences Area at the regular meeting of the Standing Committee of Plans and Programs of Study on 16 June 2010, be approved the many changes in a session that lasted 1:35 minutes.
3 Goche, Flor.2010. Professors UNAM uncertain future. Contralínea. 194:44-49.
4 Fallacy used as justification in the Draft Plan, and also supported by the director and the "student representatives" of the Faculty of Law during the session of the Commission CAACS and entered of record CPPPE-LXXV-16-VI-10.