Dean Alejandro Carrasco integrates technical table on SAE

11 experts are part of this group, convened by Mineduc, which will prepare recommendations for possible modifications to SAE.

Within the framework of the approval of the 2025 Budget Law, Congress established that the Ministry of Education should convene a technical panel with different representatives and educational experts in order to identify optimization and improvement measures for the School Admission System (SAE), a panel of which UC Education Dean Alejandro Carrasco is a member. 

The first meeting of the committee, headed by Minister Nicolás Cataldo, was held on Thursday, December 26. After some time, the technical committee will prepare a report with recommendations to serve as input for different types of modifications to be made. 

“This transversal technical meeting is a great opportunity to build a common vision, based on evidence, on the improvements and adjustments that the SAE requires, in response to a fraction of families, who unlike the majority, have not benefited from the admission system. We have little time, we will have to work hard in limited times, with the goal and pressure that all families in the country have certainty about the 2026 admission process,” said Dean Alejandro Carrasco about the event. 

Along with Carrasco, he will also be part of the technical committee Sylvia Eyzaguirre, researcher at the Center for Public Studies (CEP) and advisor to the National Education Council; Maria Paz Arzola, researcher and coordinator of the Social Program of Freedom and Development and former member of the Public Education Evaluation Council; Manuela Mendoza, postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Educational Sciences of the University of O'Higgins; Mauricio Bravo, Vice Dean of Education at the U. del Desarrollo; Gonzalo Munoz, advisor to the National Education Council and the Public Education System Evaluation Council; Magdalena Vergara, researcher at IdeaPaís and former executive director of Acción Educar; Juan José Llorente, legislative and parliamentary advisor at the Jaime Guzmán Foundation; Patricio Rodriguez; researcher at the CIAE of the University of Chile; Javier González, director of SUMMA; and Christian Cabalin, Head of Communications at the Rector’s Office of the University of Chile.

“This technical roundtable will be a valuable opportunity to bring together experts and voices from the education sector. Based on the evidence, we hope to receive recommendations that will allow us to optimize a key process for safeguarding the educational path,” Minister Cataldo told La Tercera.