Overview
- The Ministry of Education issued Resolución Ministerial 338-2026 to reinterpret Council appointments at Sunedu and said a replacement should only complete a predecessor’s remaining term.
- Vicente Paul Espinoza, Sunedu’s president, rejected that legal reading and publicly accused the ministry of seeking to remove him and weaken the regulator’s technical independence.
- Sunedu announced it will file an amparo before the Sixth Constitutional Court to suspend the ministry’s measures and protect the institution’s autonomy while the courts decide.
- The Congressional Comisión de Fiscalización y Contraloría summoned the education minister and Espinoza for hearings on Monday to demand the legal and political grounds for the ministerial change.
- Media reports name Policarpio Chauca Valqui as a proposed replacement but that claim has not been confirmed in official records and Sunedu warns the dispute could affect licenciamiento for about 60 public universities that currently lack institutional license and cannot admit students.