The bill that seeks to change the current financing model of public universities to guarantee an increase in coverage and quality in higher education was presented by the SUS State University System.

With the aim of guaranteeing it’s financing and sustainability, the Public Universities of Colombia propose a bill to modify articles 86 and 87 of Law 30 of 1992.

According to information provided by the web portal of the Observatory of the Colombian University, the bill generalizes the financing model to all official HEIs and changes the inertial model of resource allocation. The inertial model that maintained, over time, the same scheme of contributions to HEIs, regardless of their results, is modified and it is now recognized, under the principle of the universality of higher education (which would lead to recognize it as a right and, incidentally, gratuity), as criteria for allocating resources, the number of enrolled, quality, increased coverage, research, reduced dropout, and improvements in gender equity and social inclusion.

 In this sense, article 86 of Law 30 would address everything related to the budgets of national, departmental and municipal universities, which would be constituted by contributions from the National budget for operation and investment, by contributions from territorial entities, by the resources and income of each institution.

For its part, article 87, with the modification proposed by Colombian public universities, states that as of the year 2021 the National Government will allocate annual contributions to state or official universities for investment and in accordance with the objectives set for the University System State. This item will correspond to ten percent (10%) of the contributions drawn for the operation of the Universities in each term, established in the previous article. These resources will not be part of the budget base of said institutions.

It should be noted that the bill includes ideas from a similar project by representative Jaime Rodríguez Contreras, based in the 2018-2019 legislature, and which was finally archived.

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