VENEZUELAN BUDGET LEAVES UNIVERSITIES SHORT OF FUNDS
November 1st, 2011
BY PACIFICA GODDARD
Venezuela's so-called 'autonomous' public universities are claiming they will receive only a fraction of the state funding they require in 2012 under a new government budget, currently being finalised in the country's national assembly. The universities claim they are being singled out because of their independence - they are public, but not under the control of President Hugo Chavez' leftist government.
Bernardo Méndez, administrative vice-rector at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), said in the university's November newsletter ...
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