:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/JHLDFKKMFVFSLH6VJ7UTTI5RZM.png "Manuel Castillo Venegas is named new Superintendent of Sunedu")
On Wednesday, February 23, the Ministry of Education (Minedu)through Ministerial Resolution No. 131-2023, formalized the appointment of Manuel Enemecio Castillo Venegas as head of the National Superintendence of Higher Education (Sunedu).
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Yesterday, was to be chosen the replacement for Oswaldo Zegarra, who would end his term in August. It is not known whether the session convened by the representative of the Ministry of Education has been postponed or has come to an end.
The new superintendent is a professor at National University of Piura (UNP) and one of the public university representatives who make up the Sunedu Board of Directors.
It should be remembered that on August 19, 2022, Professors Manuel Enemecio Castillo Venegas and Enrique Manuel Hernández García, from the private University San Juan Bautista – Ica Branch, were elected representatives of public universities in a meeting called by Jerí Ramón , rector of the National University of San Marcos (UNMSM).
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This election was questioned and denounced by the majority of public universities because it only had the participation of 14 rectors out of 31 qualified from the National Association of Public Universities of Peru (Anupp) also headed by Jerí Ramón.
After the promulgation of law 31520, known as the law of university counter-reform, last Friday February 17, with only four of its seven members, the new board of directors of Sunedu was installed, then the next day, they met again to choose Oswaldo Zegarra’s successor.
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Andrés Ramos, who called an extraordinary session to install Sunedu’s new board of directors, was responsible for the academic department of the faculty of engineering and architecture at San Martín de Porres University. By law, he had to give a year’s notice before becoming a civil servant.
During the election of the new head of Sunedu, representatives of private universities, the National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (Concytec) and the National System of Evaluation, Accreditation and Certification of Quality of Education (Sineace) did not participate, who also make up the institution’s board of directors.
It should be recalled that the amparo action of the judiciary against Law 31520 was in force, whose conviction in second instance would be known in March, and so far the settlement of the law announced by President Dina Boluarte in December last and which reaffirmed Prime Minister Alberto Otarola.
However, last Thursday, the Constitutional Court unanimously declared the judicial appeal filed by the Congress of the Republic against
judiciary power; Therefore, the resolutions issued under the amparo process that prevented the reform from being applied to Sunedu’s board of directors would be null and void.