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After five months of talks, the bench held between the Ministry of Education and the Student Federation of Chile (CONFECH) reached an important agreement, which envisages an increase in the amount given Bicentennial Scholarship by reference to the tariff and the creation of a national single pass, two of the main demands raised by the university and eventually shook talks between the two entities.

Claudio Muñoz, president of the Federation of Students Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM), explained that The document includes "grants approval where, for example, Juan Gomez Milla Grant, the Academic Excellence, the Children of Teachers and National score rise from one million to one million 150 thousand pesos. Also created a scholarship Regional Scoring, which have the same position as the National Scoring. " Another item approved by the Ministry of Education is the governmental entity undertakes to weigh 10% of the PSU score of 5% of the top students graduating from secondary schools, municipal and subsidized schools, which must be ratified by the Council Rectors of Chilean Universities. But surely, there are two major achievements: The first is that the youth of the first and second quintile who have taken the score needed to qualify for the Bicentennial Scholarship will receive full reference tariff, while the second is the implementation of a national single pass, which will regulate the charging of fees throughout the country and will be delivered and administered by the National Board of Student Aid and Scholarships (Junaeb). "There is a great addition the Ministry has allocated significant amounts of student aid, which is consistent with that we are approaching the first two quintiles are going to study for free. Moreover, the methodology is valuable only go national, since nowadays there is much difference between Santiago and regions then this happens gives equity regarding rates and how to provide this transportation service to all students in Chile, "says Muñoz.

To see the topics of the new school pass a technical committee be formed to operate until December this year, so be delivered from 2008. This council will consist of the student leaders of the Catholic University of Chile, Católica del Norte in Coquimbo, Talca, Arturo Prat and the Catholic University of Valparaiso. For its part, Mauricio Araneda, president of the Student Federation of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso is shown very pleased with the results noting that, despite the different political ideologies CONFECH concentrated, there was a union to take these issues forward. "The Ministry should have acted sooner, but I think the deal is positive and marks a new path for what are the institutional relationships between the Ministry of Education, Division of Higher Education and student federations. This is a moment that many expected, especially with the issue of school pass, which was released for discussion of a technical nature, from that, the CONFECH emanated from a committee of five federations, which I chair, to check with the Ministry of the different interests regions which will bring forth a proposal as inclusive as possible to local realities, "says Araneda. According

said Victor Rodriguez, chairman of the Federation of Students of the University of Santiago , on Tuesday to meet with ministry officials to draft the document to be signed on Friday