[News] Coronavirus in Peru: more than 82,000 requests for transfer to public schools are submitted

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The Ministry of Education (Minedu) has so far received 82,615 requests to transfer parents who want to change their children from a private school to a public one, José Carlos Vera, general director of Decentralized Management in the sector, reported today.

In an interview with América Noticias, he specified that Lima concentrates the largest number of transfer requests. Then follows Callao and the regions of Cusco, Lambayeque and Piura, among others. He added that they are organizing while they receive the information through a web platform Registration 2020.

“As of today there are 82,615 requests at the national level for the transfer from private to public schools. It is important to know that in Metropolitan Lima it concentrates 60% or a little more. They are 50,800 what corresponds to Lima. This topic is also concentrated in the main cities of the country: Callao, Cusco, Lambayeque and Piura are the ones that follow, but to a lesser extent, "he explained.

 

 

Vera indicated that the Minedu has been projected with an estimate of receiving approximately more than 350 thousand transfer requests. He assured that the sector will attend to all the orders that are processed through the web platform; However, he clarified that they are preparing a report of available vacancies in order to meet the demand.

"We had raised several projection scenarios between 120,000 to 350,000 or a little more in more aggressive scenarios and that is why, in parallel with this demand, we are making a vacancy survey available nationwide with the directors. Now they have to send a report on this current information so that by May 22, the registration of applications, we can also have the number of vacancies that we have. 100% of enrollment applications will be attended, ”he said.

Likewise, he maintained that the Ministry of Education is also working with projections towards 2021. The official mentioned that when executing the transfer there will be more students in the public offering for the next school year.

 

 

Given this, he said that before focusing on a new infrastructure, virtual classrooms and the extension of school hours to the afternoon shift are being considered.

“The analyzes indicate that we are going to have a contingent of vacancies to offer, and if there were no physicists with folders, what arises are virtual classrooms, since this year the service is being provided in person through Aprendo en casa. In addition, assign additional teachers to accompany. The sector is preparing for this demand and for next year because it is to measure the costs for more teachers, educational resources, food to distribute, among others, "he added.

"Before thinking of new classrooms, it is to know the panorama and you could expand the double shifts as in the afternoon with more teachers who cover that time and then think of new infrastructure spaces," he insisted.