00:00 And the government of Honduras considered that education is a pivotal pillar for the
00:05 reformation of the country.
00:07 Hence, in 2024, it increased the budget for this area by 6 percent, reaching consensus
00:15 with the main actors.
00:16 Our correspondent Vilma Saituno provides us further details.
00:21 Honduran teachers assured that the current government has created a suitable environment
00:27 for understanding in situations that allow great proposals to be made in favor of the
00:32 country's education.
00:33 Honduras is going through a better moment with the government of President Xiomara Castro
00:39 Zelaya with the Minister of Education Daniel Esponda, as we can repeat.
00:43 Likewise, teachers continue to propose the minister creating more textbooks since earlier
00:50 there were not.
00:51 But now we have them.
00:53 And we need to update more textbooks now.
00:57 We are updating the curriculum.
00:59 This is the proposal of teachers.
01:00 Obviously, the Ministry of Education is willing to continue providing us with those texts.
01:06 That is its role as ministry to sit around a table to conduct and work on the same domestic
01:12 issues.
01:13 Currently, we are talking about an educational project for the re-foundation of Honduras,
01:18 the re-foundation of this educational matter.
01:21 That's the main basis for this government of democratic socialism in the 21st century.
01:29 Experts in education recognize that the administration of Xiomara Castro has shown interest in improving
01:34 the conditions of thousands of students at all levels, providing the basics for quality
01:40 education.
01:41 However, in this government of President Xiomara, we have seen improvement in different educational
01:47 policies, such as the school snack, the issue of school fission.
01:51 The president even increased the budget, which is not enough yet.
01:55 Now we understand there are positive messages for Honduras' education to begin to improve.
02:00 But the main problem is Honduras is not a curriculum issue, but the structural exclusion
02:04 that exists due to poverty and the low levels of learning in the country.
02:09 Nonetheless, through the curriculum issue, a curriculum transformation can be made so
02:13 that the quality of education improves.
02:17 Teachers work hand in hand with the re-foundation of a plan as they claim that the dictatorship's
02:23 administration destroyed the educational curriculum, which allowed the quality of education to
02:29 be lowered.
02:32 There is an urgent need for doing something now.
02:35 A curriculum adjustment.
02:36 We have a basic national curriculum, which has lowered the quality of education.
02:41 The curriculum itself appears to be the best, but practice fully proves to be the opposite.
02:46 For instance, the curriculum of technical institutes was too low for them as their level
02:51 was equal to basic education centers, which is totally incorrect, questionable, and when
02:57 teachers of those technical institutes wanted to apply the previous curriculum, what we
03:02 had was repression.
03:04 Hence, we have to boost the quality of education hand in hand with teachers raising awareness
03:10 among parents so that we have new citizens for the next few decades.
03:14 That's what the country needs in terms of technological advance and needs a new global
03:19 contest.
03:20 Honduras is currently developing a re-foundation plan in the education sector, which has three
03:27 pilars, including to enable young people reaching their full potential and create a system that
03:34 eradicates poverty and inequality by building up a social democracy.
03:38 Para TELESUR, les informo.
03:42 Pilma Aceituno.
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