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The Undersecretary of Higher Education, Juan Eduardo Vargas, referred to the 12% fewer students who signed up to take the Transition Test, ensuring that this should not mean a drop in enrollment at professional institutes and universities next year.
It should be noted that in the registration process, which ended last Friday, 262,377 applicants participated, who will take the Transition Test 2021 on January 4 and 5. The figure is 12% lower than those registered last summer at the PSU with 297,450 students and, in addition, it is the lowest in the last 13 years.
Of the 262,377 registered for the Transition Test, 55% are women and 45% are men. In addition, 97% are Chilean and the remaining 3%, foreigners.
Despite the drop in registrations, Undersecretary Juan Eduardo Vargas valued, in statements to Radio Duna, “that there are more than 262 thousand young people who, in this complex and anomalous context, such as the coronavirus pandemic, continue to see education superior an important path for your future ”.
Vargas added that “a part of the drop is due to young people who in the current context prefer to wait, but also because they are young people who study in evening high schools or professional technical high schools, and who continue their higher education in institutes or technical training centers that do not they require a score on that test. “
However, the authority assured that “this decrease does not imply that there will be a decrease in the enrollment of the institutions. Perhaps in universities there could be a drop in enrollment, but not necessarily in professional institutes. And 55% of the enrollment in higher education in the first year corresponds to young people who enter institutes or technical training centers ”.
Safe Transition Test
Finally, Vargas explained that the Ministry of Education, together with the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health, in addition to Demre, are preparing the health protocol to provide security for those who go to the places to take the exam.
“We are evaluating health protocols and we will strictly follow what the health authorities tell us in terms of physical distancing, health supplies and control of those students who may eventually suffer from covid at the time of taking the test,” he concluded.
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