Paraguayan government grants US$67,000 for the Taiwan-Paraguay University
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Paraguayan President, Mario Abdo Benítez, signed Decree No. 6972, authorizing the Ministry of Finance to modify the estimated income in the 2022 budget of the Polytechnic University Taiwan-Paraguay (UPTP) for PYG 458,368,007 (US$67,000). The money is basically for the payment of current expenses, maintenance, food expenses, and purchase of supplies. The budget of the Taiwan University Paraguay is PYG 6.6 billion for this year.
Currently, the Taiwan-Paraguay University operates at the Army Communications Command, located on Sebastián Gaboto Street in the Tacumbú neighborhood, according to its rector, Carlino Velázquez. Previously, its students taught classes at the Paraguayan Olympic Committee’s premises.
The Polytechnic University Taiwan-Paraguay has a provisional authorization for 18 months to operate in a borrowed place and is waiting for its definitive headquarters, commented Narciso Velázquez, president of the National Council of Higher Education (Cones). He added that the educational institution requested an extension to continue operating.
According to Velázquez, the plenary of the Cones will have to define whether or not to grant the extension of the authorization to this public university, which was created by Law 6,096 in May 2018, and whose first entrance exam was in 2019.
The president of the Cones did not answer whether or not this is the only university that the council enables without having a headquarters where to install laboratories, classes, and so on.
Even though it is a green lung in Asunción, a refuge for fauna and flora, those responsible for the university want to build a four-story building on the grounds of the Metropolitan Guasu Park.
On April 26, the head of Copaco, Sante Vallese, announced that President Mario Abdo disagrees with using the Parque Guasu Metropolitano to construct the Polytechnic University Taiwan Paraguay. The telephone company is making available a site in Puerto Botanico, which will be visited today by the university’s authorities.
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