In the middle of the panel ‘Building bridges in the education of the future: a conversation from the territories’, at the Summit of Leaders for Education (CLE) held by the EAN University in the capital, The secretaries of Education of Bogotá (Isabel Segovia), Medellín (Luis Guillermo Patiño), Cali (Tatiana Aguilar), Barranquilla (Paola Amar) and Bucaramanga (Martha Cecilia Guarín) referred to the challenges that the main cities of the country have in this area. educational.
The secretaries of Bogotá, Medellín and Cali agreed that the ravages of the pandemic are still being seen in the sector.
The Secretary of Education of Bogotá, Isabel Segovia, insisted that the problems of the pandemic and education are related and? Currently, we continue to see the ravages of that moment that the country and the city had to live through.
For his part, the Secretary of Education of Medellín, Luis Guillermo Patiño, pointed out that the pandemic has also left havoc in the city, although he also blamed the previous government of Daniel Quintero and how they found the capital of Antioquia.
Patiño emphasized that Mayor Federico Gutiérrez has asked him to focus on promoting educational programs because they consider that this is one of the driving forces of the city. He said that they have a big bet on technological renewal and that they are seeking for all schools to have at least 900,000 megabytes of connectivity.
In the case of the Secretary of Education of Cali, Tatiana Aguilar, she not only blamed the pandemic for the problems that are being registered in the sector in the capital of Valle del Cauca, but also blamed the “social outbreak” of 2021. In that sense, he said that there has been a problem regarding school dropouts.
Bucaramanga, for its part, has been the city that has had the best educational indicators. However, Secretary Martha Cecilia Guarín recognized that there is still a lot of progress to be made and that is why they are focusing on improving educational infrastructure.
Guarín insisted that the education sector, like the health sector, They are the priorities of Mayor Jaime Beltrán and that was a directive that was given to him from the beginning.
