The Treasury attributed the cuts to the 2025 budgets of the UNAM and the IPN to a “regrettable error,” which is why it is already working with the Budget Commission of the Chamber of Deputies to ensure that both institutions have a 3.5% increase compared to this year, as instructed by President Claudia Sheinbaum.
“The Undersecretariat of Expenditures of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit informs that, due to a regrettable error, the budget of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the National Polytechnic Institute were reduced in the Expenditure Budget of the Federation that was delivered today to the Congress of the Union,” he reported in a statement.
He added that both the rector of UNAM and the general director of the IPN have already been notified.
Earlier, UNAM demanded a reduction in its budget for next year after the publication of the 2025 Economic Package.
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According to the project presented this Friday, a budget cut for UNAM of 5,360.1 million pesos is expected, thus its budget would decrease from 50,418 million pesos this year to 45,058 million pesos in 2025.
“A sustained investment is required to care for 373,000 students, for infrastructure, for the updating of academic programs and for the development of research and the dissemination of culture,” UNAM highlighted in a statement.
The Treasury stated that education spending contemplated in the 2025 budget will increase by 11,869 million pesos.
“The federal government reaffirms its unrestricted commitment to education and mainly to public education institutions that are a fundamental pillar for the social development of Mexico,” he added.
With information from Silvia Rodríguez
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