News of universities

Double setback for Milei as Congress overturns two vetoes

02-10-2025 19:56 Another blow for Milei as Senate overturns two presidential vetoes, upholding laws that increase funding for state universities and paediatric hospitals.

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Triple setback for Milei as Congress rejects vetoes

19-09-2025 00:21 Ruling party’s weakness in both chambers on full display; Overwhelmingly majority of senators reject striking down of ATN Treasury contributions bill, day after lower house lawmakers reversed vetoes on paediatric emergency and state universities.

MARCHA FEDERAL PROTEST

Protesters cheer Milei veto defeat at Marcha Federal for universities, paediatric care

17-09-2025 20:38 Thousands rally outside Congress as lawmakers in lower house vote to reject vetoes on bills to boost funding for public universities and Argentina’s leading children’s hospital, a major blow for President Javier Milei.

Demonstration in Buenos Aires

Doctors and university staff stage protest against Milei vetoes

13-09-2025 09:33 Protesters take to streets, calling on lawmakers to overturn presidential vetoes on funding bills for paediatric care and state universities.

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Milei vetoes state university funding bill, escalating conflict

10-09-2025 22:38 President vetoes in full bill proposing new funding for state universities, pay rises for teaching and non-teaching staff; Move will increase tensions with education workers and opposition.

Editorial

Through a (bionic) glass darkly

16-08-2025 06:47 Are universities wholly to blame for educational and cultural deficits long preceding entry into institutions of higher learning?

As I see it

There are no easy answers in education

12-10-2024 06:59 Living as we do in an egalitarian age, many educationalists are reluctant to take into account another unfortunate fact: people have different talents

by James Neilson

EDITORIAL

Reducing the issue

12-10-2024 06:16 Both sides fall into the error of reducing this issue to a budget tussle without bringing up the major structural problems of university education.

Analysing Argentina

Milei’s deserved but premature celebration

12-10-2024 06:09 If two highly sensitive issues like pensions and universities fail to gather the two-thirds majority needed to overturn vetoes, President Milei can rest assured that his executive powers will remain intact for another year.

by Marcelo J. García

EDUCATION ROW

Striking teachers, students on war footing against Milei's austerity

10-10-2024 23:11 As students occupy university faculties across the country, the government warns such actions are “a crime” and asks the courts to intervene and order evictions.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

La persuasión avanza

10-10-2024 23:08 The government has long accepted the fragility, both quantitatively and qualitatively, of its legislative strength. But like good bilardistas, they believe that when you win, you win.

by Javier Calvo

EDUCATION & ECONOMY

Teachers at state universities call 24-hour strike after veto vote

09-10-2024 18:13 Frente Sindical Universitario announces state universities will be hit with strike action on Thursday in wake of congressional backing of President Milei's veto.

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Deputies back Milei’s veto of university funding bill

09-10-2024 15:43 Javier Milei’s government manages to shield his veto of the University Funding Law; Opposition fails to obtain the two-thirds needed to overthrow the President’s decision.

education funding row

Congress opens session on Milei's veto of university funding bill

09-10-2024 12:32 Argentina's lower house Chamber of Deputies will on Wednesday decide if President Javier Milei's veto of a law allowing greater funding to state universities will be upheld.

EDITORIAL

It’s the education, stupid

05-10-2024 06:24 When presenting the 2025 Budget in mid-September, Milei defined his fundamental fiscal principle as first defining the available revenue and then adjusting the spending to it – modernising the university system to that end could be an interesting application of that principle. But instead his primitive proposal is literally to cut university spending in half with his chainsaw.

Marcha Federal Universitaria

Milei vetoes law despite huge march in support of state universities

03-10-2024 01:09 President Javier Milei has made good on threats to veto proposed increases to university funding, with the measure made official early Thursday after a day of major student-led protests.

Marcha federal universitaria

Milei faces fresh protest in Argentina over cuts to universities

02-10-2024 22:31 Public university staff and students take to streets to protest against Milei’s forthcoming veto of a bill that would raise salaries to compensate for sky-high inflation.

POLITICS & ECONOMY

President targets rivals as he confirms he will veto university law

02-10-2024 20:22 President responds to mass demonstration in favour of state universities by confirming he will veto new law; Head of state ramps up rhetoric, namechecking rivals and accusing them of forming “new populist left front.”

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Higher learning versus hire learning

21-09-2024 06:19 There is no chance of improving the quality of higher education without doing something about the quantity of both universities and students.

by Michael Soltys

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Double blow for Milei: Senate passes university bill, blocks SIDE cash

13-09-2024 11:04 Milei’s cash for spy services blocked as both chambers of Congress block presidential decree for first time since 1994; Senate approves law providing salary increases and boosting budget for universities facing funding “emergency.”

EDUCATION

Teaching staff at public universities stage 48-hour strike

20-08-2024 12:06 Strike at state universities gets underway with no classes scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday; Unions claim the government's wage renegotiation proposal is insufficient as Milei administration looks to cut costs.

EDUCATION

Milei says he will keep state universities, attacks the opposition

29-04-2024 15:30 President Javier Milei faced the biggest demonstration of his adminitration yet on April 23 as protesters took to the streets nationwide support of public universities.