According to figures from Student Enrollment System (Simat)341,417 children and adolescents have dropped out of their school studies during the last year in the country.
(The actions of the Ministry of Education in La Guajira).
This situation has raised alarms in the Office of the Attorney General of the Nationwhich extended a request to the Ministry of Education for “formulate urgent actions to guarantee the permanence of boys, girls, adolescents and young people in the educational system“.
(Conscious progress, new brand purpose of Grupo Aval).
In the same way, the Public Ministry requested that it be informed about the actions that are being taken by the Government in order to provide support and oversight to educational institutions where higher levels of dropout are occurring in order to find the reasons that are causing them in order to confront it.
According to figures from the Ministry of Education, Between November 2022 and May 2023, a total of 473,786 children and young people have dropped out of their schoolsthis while between the years 2021 and 2022 the average was 330,000.
(The payments of the third Jóvenes en Acción incentive start).
Said report, additionally, mentions that the department with the highest dropout levels is Putumayo, with a rate of 8.11%. Following entity are, in their order: arauca, Guainia and caqueta.
As soon as the big cities meet Bogota, Medellin, Solitude (Atlantic) and Cali are those where the dropout rates are the highest.
Education
According to the portfolio, various situations such as public order and insecurity have been important triggers for the increasing levels of desertion, which affects educational institutions, as well as the academic processes of students.
(Two ministries lost 119,000 million for not collecting them).
“This is a phenomenon that has various explanations. Mainly, there is an affectation in the educational system due to the armed conflict. It is no coincidence that the highest rates are in Putumayo, Guainía and Arauca, places of high conflict“, assured Óscar Sánchez Jaramillo, Vice Minister of Preschool, Basic and Secondary Education.
Similarly, the official added that “It is also a matter of inequality. This is a country that offers very unequal opportunities for access to education“.
BRIEFCASE
