Mexico Needs to Expand Higher Education: Rector of UNAM - CAMPUS MILENIO

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Higher education in Mexico needs to be expanded to provide opportunities for young people who still encounter economic, territorial and academic barriers, as it currently caters to 5.52 million students.

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Mexico must expand public higher education to cater for more young people, but this growth must be accompanied by staff, infrastructure, student support and sufficient funding to preserve quality, said the rector of UNAM, Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas. During a conference at UAZ, he stressed that higher education enrolment grew by about 30% in a decade and called for the consolidation of inclusive, innovative, humanist universities with long-term proj…