Overview
- At the First National Meeting of public universities at the SEP headquarters, the federal government invited institutions to upload short courses, materials and microcredentials to SaberesMx for open public access.
- Subsecretary Ricardo Villanueva detailed the opening course at 18 hours with 71 didactic tools and an enrollment goal of 5.5 million, positioning the platform for lifelong learning and labor upskilling.
- UNAM and IPN signaled participation, with IPN reporting 28,176 new Polivirtual spaces, as officials framed SaberesMx as a national system to democratize knowledge and support flexible academic pathways.
- Sheinbaum pressed universities to practice republican austerity to free capacity and expand matriculation, while emphasizing that collaboration will respect institutional autonomy.
- In Thursday remarks, Sheinbaum said the site is already accessible online and will expand over time; she also highlighted a separate AI and data program at TecNM Tláhuac serving 10,000 students in person and online.