Milei keeps his word: the government in Argentina is making drastic cuts in education and science

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“Funds for school meals were also cut. The budget for universities is only enough for a few months. Students achieve partial success with institute appointments. However, the government is denying the teachers' union the collective bargaining that is customary at the beginning of each school year, so that the income of teachers and school staff is falling even further. It's currently still the summer holidays, but classes are scheduled to start again in the next two weeks. Currently  the union about a possible strike. (…) universities and state scientific operations are also affected. The budget for universities was frozen at last year's level. (…) Last Wednesday, one floor of the building Godoy Cruz 2290, central headquarters of the Conicet, was temporarily closedoccupied Contribution by Miguel Arndt from February 22, 2024 in Amerika21 , see:

• Over 500 injured at the 5th Federal University March in Argentina on October 15th: Milei lets universities bleed dry and protests are brutally suppressed 
  • Protests in Argentina against Milei's austerity policies at universities
    Last Wednesday, tens of thousands of people protested again in Buenos Aires against the austerity policies of the ultra-right President Javier Milei at public universities. Universities and unions jointly called for the fifth Federal University March (quinta Marcha Universitaria Federal). Their main demand is to implement the wage and budget increases prescribed in the University Financing Act. Some slogans were: “Listen Milei, obey the law” and “the public university is not the problem, but part of the solution”. (…) According to the newspaper Tiempo Argentino, shortly after the central rally began, the law enforcement forces responded with “brutal and disproportionate” repression. They tried to “break” the human chains using tear gas and rubber bullets. According to the Comisión Provincial por la Memoria, at least 550 people, including 16 members of the organization and press representatives, were hit by tear gas grenades, rubber bullets and chemical munitions. According to the daily newspaper Página/12, there were also provocateurs among the demonstrators who played into the hands of the “security forces”, but were mostly easily recognizable. (…)
    The demonstrators also insisted on the “historic pillars of the Argentine university model”: freedom from fees, autonomy, co-determination and the nationwide presence of universities as places for social advancement. They criticized the fact that the draft budget for 2027 for public universities presented by the Mileis government was the lowest in history - it comprises less than one percent of GDP and does not provide any funds for the implementation of the University Financing Act. In contrast, the National Interuniversity Council (CIN) is calling for an increase in the official draft by 33.4 percent…” 
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    Permanent violation of the law: Argentine government refuses to fund universities and suppresses protests
    
    Architecture student Pablo Fernández Martínez described the “catastrophic conditions” at the UBA in Buenos Aires: “Broken floors, wobbly tables and a lack of chairs – despite low wages, most lecturers are still committed. It is an unprecedented situation. Since Milei took office, the budget for the universities has been cut by 45.6 percent. There are no current figures from the Ministry of Education. The most recent are from 2024. In that year, the university budget accounted for 0.56 percent of GDP. In 2023 it was 0.72 percent. The consequences of the cuts are devastating. From January 2024 to April of this year, 438 lecturers and researchers were laid off at the UBA's Faculty of Natural Sciences. "The teachers have lost a third of their salary and there are no funds for research," explains biology lecturer Guillermo Folguera. Those who continue to teach at the university have to do additional jobs in order to survive. (…)
    …”Article by Florencia Beloso in the young world from October 20, 2026 
• Argentina: Three-day university strike at the end of September prepared for the 5th March in Defense and Funding of Higher Education on October 15
  • Argentina: Three-day university strike
    “Buenos Aires. The resistance of public universities to the higher education policy of the government of Javier Milei continues. After the government ignored a federal court deadline to clear outstanding payments, teaching and administrative staff unions called for a three-day strike. Their main demand is a salary adjustment of 33.4 percent and the immediate implementation of the higher education financing law passed almost a year ago, which provides for an increase in university budgets in line with inflation and the resumption of scholarship programs for students.
    The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and other universities in the country took part in the strike. The two largest university lecturers' associations, Conadu and Conadu Histórica, as well as other unions such as the Association of Employees at National Universities (Fatum) and the Union of Education Employees (UTE), had called for the strike. (…) As part of the protest, the UBA Faculty of Economics opened its doors to the public. Tips on fraud prevention and debt settlement were offered, among other things. A “hug campaign” took place at the Medical Faculty. The three-day strike is seen as a harbinger of the fifth Federal University March planned for October 15th…”Article by Stephan Hollensteiner from October 5th, 2026 in Amerika21 
  • Universities: Teachers' strike and new judicial ultimatum – Milei violates the financing law
    “Judge Cormick confirmed the salary adjustment order and set a new deadline of five days for its implementation, under threat of fines for the officers. The unions went on a 72-hour strike.
    …” span.
  • The fifth nationwide March in Defense of Higher Education will take place on October 15th
    “The government is delaying payments and universities are taking to the streets. Teachers' salaries still need to be increased by 32 percent, but the government is only offering 3 percent. To make matters worse, she wants to allocate 4 trillion pesos less for this area in the 2027 budget than requested…” span.Article by Pablo Esteban from September 21, 2026 on Página|12(machine translated)
• Education strike against austerity measures in Argentina: Second, nationwide strike by university teachers within just one week
  “University employees want to strike again against the lack of funding for universities and low salaries
  Against the government's divisive and extortionate policies, for better conditions at universities: With a second, nationwide strike within just a week, university teachers want to bring university operations in Argentina to a nationwide standstill this Tuesday. Their demands are specific: they demand an increase in salaries of 31.2 percent, plus the August inflation rate, and also for the government to guarantee the operating costs of all academic institutions - which it is actually obliged to do by law.
  Last Wednesday, university lecture halls in Argentina remained empty for 24 hours. The union alliance of the Federation of University Teachers (FEDUN) and the Federation of National University Employees (FATUN) had launched the first part of their action plan after wage negotiations with the government predictably failed. The union leaders had previously backed away from the original demand for a 51 percent increase and, despite increased mobilization and protests, had agreed on 21 percent. But after three months, the teachers finally burst their collar when the government put a three percent increase in salaries on the table.
  For more than 300 days, the government has ignored the university funding law, which requires it to increase lecturers' salaries by 51 percent and a budget increase amounting to 0.36 percent of GDP. The law was only passed last year due to strong public pressure. She continues to refuse to accept the legislative setback for her course, even though she has so far failed with all objections and four legal challenges. Even a three-day deadline to submit a progress report given by Argentina's Supreme Court last week appears to have bypassed President Javier Milei's cabinetArticle by Santiago Stavale, Buenos Aires, in the Junge Welt from September 8th, 2026 (“Education strike against cuts”)
• • Protests against Milei are spreading in Argentina: social organizations are criticizing the right-wing government's austerity policies and labor market reforms
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    The escalation of social conflicts coincides with a further intensification of the president's rhetoric. In a television interview, Milei stated that there were “terrorists disguised as students, journalists, professors and scientists,” triggering sharp criticism from the opposition, trade unions and university associations.
    One of the focal points of the conflict is education. The association of education workers CTERA called for a nationwide strike and accused the government of refusing collective bargaining and failing to reintroduce the teachers' fund (FONID). This salary subsidy was discontinued by the Milei government in 2024.
    …”Article by Sven Hanfstängl Reuss from August 8th, 2026 in Amerika21 (For the other protests see the reports in the dossier:)
  • Nationwide teachers' strike in Argentina: Teachers demand dialogue and adequate salaries
    “The Association of Education Workers has called for a 24-hour strike this Monday after the government refused to negotiate wages and reinstate FONID. The demands include increased funding and rejection of reforms.
    On Monday 3, a nationwide teachers' strike will begin in Argentina, called by the Association of Education Employees (CTERA) for preschool, primary and secondary education, following the “continued refusal” of the government of Javier Milei to enter into dialogue and new wage negotiations.
    As announced by CTERA and various unions, the industrial action, which is initially expected to last 24 hours, aims at other demands, including the “immediate” reintroduction of the Teachers' Support Fund (FONID) and increased funding for schools and educational programs. “Teachers' salaries continue to lose purchasing power, the repayment of FONID and national education funds continues to be non-existent, and initiatives are being pushed forward that aim to curtail labor and pension rights as well as the social right to education,” the unions argued in a joint statement.
    The demand for a wage adjustment and “urgent” financing is a reaction to the “devaluation” of wages below the inflation rate and to the lack of funds for schools and canteens. The teachers also called for the adoption of a new education financing law and rejected the draft law on freedom of education and possible pension reforms in order to “defend the public, solidarity-based and pay-as-you-go pension system.”
    The measure coincides with the planned start of school in the city and province of Buenos Aires, Chaco and Santiago del Estero, but will affect the entire country. Although it primarily concerns public institutions, some private schools will also take part, depending on the decision of the institution in question or the requirements of the teaching staff and the unions in the sector, such as the Argentine Union of Private School Teachers (SADOP).
    SpanishReport from August 2, 2026 on teleSUR (machine translated)
  • Forceful nationwide teachers strike with extremely high participation and massive CTERA mobilizations across the country
    “The Association of Education Workers of the Republic of Argentina (CTERA) reports that the national teachers' strike called for today saw an extremely high turnout throughout the country, with large numbers of education workers taking part in the various actions and demonstrations in each province.
    The focus of the day of action was the large-scale rally in front of the Ministry of Economy, which was organized together with CONADU, CONADU Histórica and ATE and which strongly demanded measures that guarantee the social right to education and respect for workers…” span.Reported on August 3, 2026 by CTERA
  • See alsoMulticolor
• More than 2,600 scientists from different countries, including 25 Nobel Prize winners, warn of the dismantling of science in Argentina 
  “in an open letter to President Javier Milei
  
  
  
  They specifically condemned the "increasing militarization" of the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI) and the "repression" against Conicet, Argentina's main research institution, whose employees peacefully protested against 379 layoffs and the abolition of careers for support staff and researchers.
  Such events are “unprecedented incidents worldwide,” the letter says. “It is unthinkable to find examples of governments physically abusing their scientists,” the international scientists wrote. (…)
  “We strongly and respectfully request that the skills acquired are retained,” the letter says. Otherwise there is a risk of “the collapse of a system that took many years to build, from which all of humanity benefited and which would take many more years to rebuild.”…”Article by Hans Weber from August 3rd, 2026 in Amerika21 (“25 Nobel Prize winners warn of cuts to science in Argentina”)
• Researchers from the state research funding organization CONICET in Argentina are protesting against cuts and layoffs of 375 postdoctoral researchers
  "Across the country in Argentina, employees of the state research funding organization CONICET (National Council for Scientific and Technological Research) protested against budget cuts and the impending dismissal of 375 scholarship holders. They also demanded the immediate reintroduction of health insurance for all employees. In Buenos Aires there was a march to the CONICET headquarters in the Palermo district, at the same time as a meeting of the CONICET board. Similar actions with a few hundred participants also took place in others Large cities, including many members of the Union of State Employees (ATE). (…) At the end of July, 375 postdocs who qualified for further employment in the “Scientific Researcher Career Track” are to be terminated. In addition to the threat of layoffs, the termination of health insurance has also led to the interruption of treatment for people with illnesses. According to ATE, the CONICET board is acting on the instructions of the Milei government's austerity policies. The recent escalation comes amid a policy of freezing funding programs for projects and laboratory supplies, as well as a decline in scientists' real wages by more than 40 percent. Both have already led to an exodus of scientists abroad. (…) In previous years, hundreds of CONICET employees were put in a precarious position due to the suspension of their previously included health insurance. CONICET offered those affected 90,000 pesos (approx. 52 euros) each to insure themselves. “An insufficient amount that disadvantages people with previous illnesses,” said those affected. Contribution by Stephan Hollensteiner from July 6, 2026 in Amerika21 (“Researchers in Argentina protest against cuts and layoffs”)
• After 30 months and four federal demonstrations, an agreement was reached between the government and the universities: salaries will increase by 24.3%
  “The rectories will not withdraw the lawsuit pending before the Supreme Court regarding the financing law. In addition, increases in financing costs, university hospitals and scholarships were decided.
  After more than two and a half years of struggle by the university community and four nationwide demonstrations. After months of ignoring the will of Congress and the rulings of the judiciary, the government of Javier Milei reached an agreement with the rectors and university unions on a 24.3% increase in salaries for teaching and non-teaching staff, as well as increases in operating expenses, university hospitals and scholarships. Although Casa Rosada intended to persuade the National Interuniversity Council (CIN) to withdraw the lawsuit, it failed to enforce this clause. The majority of unions accepted the negotiation but indicated that they would continue to demand full implementation of the financing law.
  Article by Celeste del Bianco from June 11, 2026 in Página|12 (machine translated)
• The nationwide active strike of teaching and non-teaching staff has begun at all public universities in Argentina until June 4th against the austerity policy
  • Against austerity policies. With public lectures and protests: The strike at universities against the financing law has begun
    
    On Tuesday 26, a nationwide strike by teaching and non-teaching staff began in all public universities in Argentina, which will last five days and is one of the most determined protests in recent years. The measure, initiated by teachers' associations such as Conadu and Conadu Histórica, comes just two weeks after the massive Marcha Federal Universitaria on May 12, in which hundreds of thousands gathered in defense of public and free education. Finally, the Fedun Teachers' Union (CGT) called for a strike on June 29 that will see non-teaching staff paralyze universities across the country.
    The situation escalated on Tuesday. Students from the “Nacional Buenos Aires” and “Carlos Pellegrini” high schools decided in meetings to support the teachers’ strike by occupying their respective schools. (…)
    Budget cuts are not the only attack. The day before the university march, the government officially announced another cut of more than 5.3 billion pesos, affecting not only universities but also academic institutions and important social sectors. Far from vigorously defending the university, the university administration's response was to negotiate behind the backs of the educational community. Peronist and radical rectors, united in the CIN, are trying to secure minimum funds for their coffers, while at the same time the government is pushing forward a new law that will replace the current one, abolish the inflation-related salary adjustment and further restrict resources.
    This nationwide strike coincides with awareness campaigns across the country. In addition to the student actions, the first event organized by the teachers' associations will take place on Tuesday in front of the courthouse, where teachers, students and university representatives will hold public lectures to demand that the Supreme Court force the government to comply with the law. Teachers, union representatives, students and political leaders are involved. The mobilizations are also taking place at universities such as UNC, UNLP, UNT, UNGS, UTN, UNR, UNNE, UNAJ, UNCAUS and others. In addition, the non-teaching unions of FATUN announce further strikes on May 29th and June 3rd and 4th.
    Milei's government responded with attacks and threats. She published an official document in which she questioned the right to strike and, together with rectors such as Emiliano Yacobitti (UCR), threatened to deduct strike days from their salaries and to classify the education sector as systemically important - a clear attack on the right to protest. But the teachers did not let this deter them and reaffirmed their will to fight for wages that correspond to the shopping basket and to defend the public, free and scientific university…” span. 
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    Faced with non-compliance with the funding law and anger over austerity measures and teachers' starvation wages, students from Nacional Buenos Aires and Pellegrini gathered in rallies and voted for indefinite school occupations to intensify the fight. An important step to multiply and radicalize by coordinating a real battle plan to bring Milei to its knees. The conflict in universities is coming back into focus with the strike by teaching and non-teaching staff that has begun in all public universities in the country and will continue for five more days. However, to this measure there is another piece of news: after weeks of mobilizations, symbolic hugs and important meetings of all university members, students of the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and Carlos Pellegrini have decided to continue with indefinite occupationsSubmitted by Juan Manuel Astiazarán on May 26, 2026 in La Izquierda Diario (machine translated) with photos
• Argentina on May 12th: Large crowds throughout the country protested at the 4th University March - also against provocative short-term further cuts amounting to millions
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    “Large rally in the Plaza de Mayo and in numerous cities across the country. The rejection of austerity measures in the education system is massive. But university authorities and union bureaucracies want to use this power for negotiations that lead nowhere. The government is in a serious crisis. She can be defeated. But for this to happen, the fight must be continued by developing a common struggle between teachers, non-teaching staff and students with the support of the population. The left represents this perspectiveReport from May 12, 2026 in La Izquierda Diario (machine translated) with photos and videos
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    “Large crowds are expected in central Buenos Aires as the government continues to violate the law that provides funding for universities. Repeated demonstrations are taking place across the country
  • Across the country, crowds gathered for the fourth nationwide student march: “
    “The Milei government has not complied with the funding law for more than 200 days and the education community has taken to the streets to denounce the breach of the democratic pactArticle by Celeste del Bianco from May 13, 2026 in Página|12 (machine translated)
  • Millions of euros in cuts in education and science: Another provocation from the government on the day before the student demonstration
    
    As universities and academics prepare for the fourth march across the country on Tuesday, the government is taking up the chainsaw and making new cuts in another desperate attempt. A provocation with which the libertarian government is experimenting by cutting the budget of emblematic institutions such as the Conicet (3 billion pesos less) and reducing, among other things, the funds for improving the infrastructure of state universities by 5 billion pesos. The excuse is the same as always: maintaining the zero deficit. The timing is precise: this decision is announced just as millions of people are preparing to demand from the authorities the right to study and receive training in the country. Faced with this situation, the National University of Río Negro (UNRN) decided to internationalize the conflict and filed a complaint with the United Nations to highlight the deterioration of Argentina's higher education system and demand intervention.
    Jorge Aliaga, physicist and planning secretary at the National University of Hurlingham, describes the cuts in detail. Speaking to Página 12, he explains: "This measure was taken as a result of falling tax revenues. The aim is that the authorities do not spend and that there is no budget deficit. This will of course have an even greater impact on the functioning of the system." He continues: “What was published in the Official Journal on Monday represents a budget amendment that adds some items in the Anses and in the repayment of external debts, but foresees very significant cuts in most departments, in particular in health, education, science, public works and roads.”
    Organizers of the fourth student march expect Tuesday's demonstration against the higher education funding law to attract even more people than previous events. True to form, the government, seeking to recover from the loss of image caused by repeated cases of corruption among its officials, is trying to up the ante and make cuts in education and science, two of the hardest hit areas. As a sign of strength, Milei, Adorni and Co. continue to stir up the conflict…” span.Article by Pablo Esteban from May 12, 2026 in Página|12 (machine translated)
• On May 12th, teachers, students and university staff will be called upon to defend public education and university hospitals in various cities in Argentina 
  • There are more than enough reasons: a historic mobilization to save the universities is expected
    “The libertarian government wants to destroy higher education in Argentina. The organizers expect a massive turnout and emphasize: “We hope that May 12th will be the beginning of the end of Milei’s presidency.”
    There are more than enough reasons for the fourth University March, which will take place across the country this Tuesday. With nearly 60 universities taking part, it is only natural that the protest will be replicated in every corner of the country. The call in Buenos Aires will be centered in Plaza de Mayo, and the main rally will take place at 5 p.m., when unions, principals, teachers and students will take the floor. Public universities and the 2 million people who live there face their darkest hours in May 2026. The judiciary's move to delegate the final decision on the higher education funding law to the Supreme Court could further delay the implementation of the law, which has not been applied for more than 200 days. The most recent conflict: the dispute between the government authorities and those of the UBA over cutting funding for university hospitals. When the libertarian smoke has cleared, only one reality remains: the situation of teaching and non-teaching staff is catastrophic, as they have lost around 34 percent of their purchasing power since Javier Milei took office. (…)
    University hospitals whose days are numbered
    
    The truth is: the total budget for these health facilities is 114 billion for 2026, but only 10 percent of this has been spent so far this year (just over 10 billion has been allocated). As a result, the situation of 700,000 patients using these facilities is in an uncertain situation.
    …” span.Article by Pablo Esteban from May 11, 2026 in Página|12 (machine translated)
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    “…It's not just about the cuts as a purely economic issue. It's not about the fact that we lost 42 percent of our salary in two years. The point is that the faculties constantly have to live with the despair of having to close their doors, and that this situation gets worse the further you get from the city of Buenos Aires. (The universities in the greater Buenos Aires area have made higher education accessible to the first generations who never had this opportunity before.) It's not just about the economics, it's not about university financing, nor is it about the gaps in social security that result from underfunding. It is about something much broader: the “poverty” of a country that cannot generate, produce and pass on its knowledge in a reflective, critical, secular and committed way.
    Just like the concept of slave, the concept of poverty is a false, erroneous concept adopted by those who try to see a dialectic where there is none. Slaves do not exist and never have existed, just as there are no poor people. There are the enslaved and the impoverished. Nobody enjoys being a slave. It's a process. One is born free - perhaps with too much freedom, which is later regulated for the greater good - but one becomes enslaved.
    We should talk about the impoverished. And one of the main factors of this impoverishment is the attack on the public university, which has become a spoil of war. The precariousness of the conditions in which we do our work - caused by the current government and its attempt to present this as normal - attacks and destroys the history of a country in which the public university has been a unifying factor and engine of social advancement.
    
    Teachers, researchers and universities – central places of thought – are currently going through a critical time. Our options to continue practicing this profession are limited. Beyond study plans and organizational charts, it's about something as simple as it is complex: helping to think about the world in which we live. On the 12th we will march and set an example for the public university with every step.“ SpanishArticle by Martín Smud from May 11, 2026 in Página|12 (machine translated)
  • Nationwide student march on May 12th: The UBA is calling for people to fill the Plaza de Mayo to demonstrate for more resources and higher wages
    "The Milei government is downplaying the protests and promising to submit a new university funding law to Congress. At the same time, university hospitals warned of possible supply shortages due to a lack of funds.Faced with the call from the university authorities for a new mobilization protest rally that will take place on Tuesday, May 12, to demand an adjustment in salaries for teaching and non-teaching staff and a higher budget for financing higher education, the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) called on the entire community to march to Plaza de Mayo from 5 p.m. “We must take to the streets again in thousands to defend our future,” they emphasized. The government downplays the mobilization and maintains its stance of not complying with the law passed by Congress. The mobilization is again linked to the demand for compliance with Articles 5 and 6 of Law No. 27,795 on the Financing of Higher Education, given the urgent wage and budgetary problems of state universities (Spanish, machine translated)
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    The government has managed to obtain a positive resolution according to which the injunction that obliged it to implement Law 27,795 on higher education funding will now be decided by the Supreme Court, where it is betting on winning the favor of the judicial caste. This is a significant provocation after almost 200 days of non-compliance with the law, which means that the funds for the adjustment of salaries and scholarships in universities are not provided.
    In addition, this decision provides the impetus for the large mobilization that is being prepared for next May 12th. The final decision about college funding will not be made in court, but on the street. (…)
    .”Report from May 7, 2026 in La Izquierda Diario (Spanish, machine translated)
  • National University March: What we have won is not up for negotiation!
    “Article Matías Busi from May 6, 2026 in La Izquierda Diario (machine translated)
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  Law student Victoria Liascovich, spokesperson for the Falta Envido student movement, emphasizes: “The university funding problem is a strategy brought about by the central government, because a passed law is ignored by the executive.” Their accusation is: “Instead of closing the state universities, they are trying to deprive them of their resources and gradually reduce their offerings.”…” (“Argentina: Nationwide strikes at universities”) and:
  • A hit in the budget. Salaries that are not enough, debts that grow: the reality of teachers in the province of Buenos Aires
    SpanishArticle by Natalia Hernández from 3/19/26 in La Izquierda Diario 
  • Catamarca: A massive and protracted struggle of teachers in the province of “Jalilandia”
    SpanishDossier from March 19, 2026 in La Izquierda Diario with photos
• “Law on Freedom of Education” (Milei, not Orwell): Alarm in the education system because of the draft education reform in Argentina
  • “Alarm in the education system because of the draft education reform”
    "(A draft for educational reform has been circulating in some media these days.)
    CTERA strongly opposes and rejects the document circulating under the name of the “Law on Freedom of Education” because it represents a real attack on the democratic system as a whole and, in its entirety, acts against the state guarantee of the right to education, against public schools, against trade unions and against the social and labor gains achieved in years of popular struggle.
    The authors of this initiative seek to repeal the current Education Law (LEN 26.206), which was the result of extensive and in-depth debates with all representative sectors of society and the different political areas. They disregard and ignore the respectful and pluralistic participatory process that, in 2006, managed to define education as a social right and knowledge as a public good, in order to undemocratically replace it with another design that clearly corresponds to the dictates and interests of the most economically concentrated companies in the private sector, defining education as a service and focusing on the principles of individual freedom over social interests…” span.Report from CTERA dated 11/20/25 (machine translated) and more
  • Upcoming reforms in the education system. Analysis of the document “Law on Freedom of Education”
    “Last week the document “Law on Freedom of Education” was published in various media. Below is an analysis of the text, its aims and its class nature…” span.Article by M. Betania Oreja Cerruti from 11/25/25 in La Izquierda Diario
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  “It was passed through school mandates in a plenary session sponsored by the Multicolor opposition with the vote of more than 4,200 teachers. It was also decided to stop on the 14th as part of the national measure declared by Ctera. Milei attacks education with cuts and a shrinking budget. In the province, Kicillof adapts with poverty wages and schools without conditions. A battle plan with continuity is necessary.
  Given the inaction of Baradel and Sutebas Celeste to declare the wage adjustment valid, discontent is growing in the schools. Teachers are forced to work a nine- or ten-hour day (with the fifth hour added by Kicillof). Teachers' salaries are poverty wages; a teacher earns $700,000 for one position and a teacher earns $599,402. (…)
  
  
  
  “ SpanishReport from October 6, 2025 in La Izquierda Diario (machine translated)(see alsohttps://www.pagina12.com.ar/857780-estudiantes-de-la-uba-convocan-a-la-marcha-universitaria-fed)
• Students, teachers and administrators took part in the renewed national day of struggle against budget cuts in Argentina's education system on May 22nd
  • University staff in Argentina are on strike again
    Thousands of students, teachers and administrative staff at the University of Buenos Aires protested on Thursday against loss of purchasing power and delayed wage payments. Various unions, the student umbrella organization Fuba and the student councils of the faculties as well as the management of the largest and most research-intensive university in the country called for the protest. The Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) has around 300,000 students and provides around 30 percent of the research output in Argentina. The focus of the protest was the budget cuts imposed by the Milei government since December 2023, from which all national universities and especially the UBA are suffering.
    Inflation exceeds salary adjustments month after month, student scholarships are frozen, science and research programs are not renewed, and the operating budget has been frozen since May last year.” He continued: "It is our duty to take to the streets in Buenos Aires and throughout the country to make it clear to the government that a strong and developed country is impossible without a university of equal standards. We tell the people that the university belongs to them, that it is their future and represents the hope of a child moving forward in life. To deprive a people of this hope is to deprive them of everything.”…”
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    Argentina's public universities are facing an unprecedented crisis characterized by budget cuts, loss of purchasing power and increasing precariousness of employment. Since last week, the education community has intensified its fight with strikes, occupations and mobilizations in defense of public education…” span.Article by Laura Antonini from May 26, 2025 in La Izquierda Diario
  • MAY 22: CTERA NATIONAL FIGHT DAY
    “…” span.  Call from CTERA from May 14, 2025 (machine translated)
  • CONADU sets protest week and university march in May
    “After an extensive exchange, the plenary session of the General Secretaries of the National Federation of University Teachers (CONADU) today unanimously agreed on the continuity of the battle plan, which envisages the implementation of a week of protest and visibility of the conflict starting Monday, May 19, with a call for a demonstration at the end of the month, on the occasion of the presentation in Congress of the bill on financing higher education, which is being drafted with all the institutional and trade union representations of higher education. (…)
    
    –   Last week of May: University march as part of the presentation of the project to finance higher education…” span.CONADU report from May 15, 2025
• Public universities in Argentina are threatened – not only by underfunding, but also by political control
  • Public universities in Argentina threatened
    The situation at Argentine universities is getting worse after President Javir Milei's attacks and massive budget cuts. In response, several faculties went on strike for days and protests were mobilized across the country. Meanwhile, President Milei continues his campaign to discredit public universities and ratified the budget adjustment. The budget cuts have resulted in massive waves of layoffs and a migration of teachers to private institutions and are endangering the continuity of the country's previously comparatively good and free academic offerings.
    
    Sol Alconada, president of the union of the University of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires province, said: "We know that this is an attack, it is not an economic problem of university funding, but a political problem, since they do not want the university to continue to exist as an institution for social advancement, for personal development, for national development." The week-long strike and nationwide protests are just the beginning of a growing student movement, said Sol Alconada.
    According to estimates, up to 40,000 students and supporters gathered in La Plata last week to demonstrate against the Milei government's plans. They demand that the 3.4 billion pesos [approx. three million euros] that the government canceled for next year. The funds are intended primarily for salaries of teachers and administrative staff, which should be adjusted for inflation. This is not yet provided for in the executive branch's project. According to Luca Bonfante, general secretary of the student center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, more than a hundred public universities nationwide are involved in the protests and strikesPost by Julia Liebermann from October 28th, 2024 in Amerika21 (“Public universities in Argentina threatened”)
  • University. UBA Economics: Radicals prepare curriculum reform behind closed doors in the service of Milei
    “…” span.Post from October 28th in La Izquierda Diario 
  • Argentina: How the student movement can become a subject of the fight against the law and for a liberated university
    
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