Temístocles Montás poses a revolution to achieve quality education
Santo Domingo.-The Minister of Economy, Planning and Development, Temístocles Montás, said that the country needs a "revolution to achieve quality education in the Dominican Republic", so that in 20 years, indicators similar to those that Chile has today can be achieved. , the most competitive country in Latin America.
He stated that it is hoped that quality education that leads to quality employment because the development of recent years, the result of consensus from 1990, has not been sustainable. “Economic growth must be inclusive. Although the country has grown more than the region in recent years, it has been low quality growth, which has generated low quality jobs, much of which is located today in the informal sector, ”said Montás during the first unofficial forum on the National Development Strategy organized by the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) in your library.
To these goals the minister added in general health, territorial cohesion, decent housing in healthy environments, culture, recreation and sports for human development. "This can not be achieved without institutional development, development of the economy and without considering the environmental aspect and phenomena such as climate change," he added.
The meeting, the first open forum on the subject, opens a series of four spaces for analysis and socialization that INTEC has programmed to enrich the document and addressed the structural vision of the strategy.
Miguel Escala, rector of the INTEC, affirmed that for the university the forums are sessions of commitment to establish an address that transcends governments and political parties.
Panel opinions
The Montás exhibition was followed by a panel composed of Diómedes Christopher, dean of the Business Area, Apolinar Veloz, coordinator of the economics degree and Richard Medina, president of the Student Business Committee of INTEC.
Veloz praised the proposal as a document that gathers what Dominican society has claimed for years but affirmed that it is necessary to review the scenarios on which the END is based to redefine aspects such as financing, the actors that will assume and execute the actions for the development and the role of sectors of national life in key areas such as labor.
In that sense, Medina said that "the strategy should abound on the form of revenue collection that will be used (if it is with domestic taxes, with internal or external debt, or a combination of the three types), also on the approximate proportion of financing with indirect taxes and on the repercussions for the population of middle and lower class that could imply the "comprehensive fiscal restructuring" that is mentioned as a qualitative goal ".
He also thanked the socialization of this proposal in the university, with the students "because young people are the ones who are going to carry out this development".
In this first forum Leandra Tapia, academic vice-rector, Julio Sánchez, vice-rector of research and links, Nelson Toca, vice minister of Planning of the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development (MEPyD) and Claudio Adams, of the Business Area of INTEC also headed the event , who led the event.
Next forum
The second forum will be the March 30 and will analyze the first two thematic axes, State and society; the third will be the 15 of April and it will deepen in the aspects of economy and environment. The last of the forums will study the options for financing and monitoring the strategy and will be the 29 for April.
These spaces for debate and connection with society are part of the six strategic priorities of the university, which has declared its concern for the quality of life of Dominicans.
Approach of the strategy
The national development strategy is a framework proposal to guide development actions during the next 20 years, which is why representatives of various companies, academics, graduates, students, state institutions, civil society organizations and international cooperation agencies will approached INTEC to participate in the analysis and enrichment of this document.