A total of 3,984,517 Venezuelans, aged between 3 and 24 years, they are not pursuing any type of studies, according to the 2023 Living Conditions Survey (Encovi), the results of which were presented this Wednesday by the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB). The study demonstrated, after conducting interviews in 16,212 homes in the country, that […]
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From the streets to the classrooms: Bogotá working children return to school
The nights rummaging through garbage cans Bogota in search of recyclable material were left behind for the Suárez brothers. Matilde and Rodrigo returned to school, this time to a high-quality, bilingual one, a dream difficult to achieve for poor families in Colombia. “I haven’t studied for three years, it was a great opportunity because I […]
Concern about the large increase in children who do not read or write in Latin America
The regional head of education at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for Latin America and the Caribbean, Italo Dutra, expressed his concern about the increase in children under 10 years of age who are unable to read and write, and urged to increase investment and implement more efficient programs. In an interview with EFE […]
School education in Peru was 10% more expensive in 2023
Hand in hand with inflation. The National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) reported that education in Peru, in 2023, was 6.4% more expensive than in 2022. However, if we disaggregate only school education, the levels rose more than 10 %, on average. The prices of the teaching secondary were the most critical, with a […]
School education under attack in Ukraine due to Russian invasion
Frequent anti-aircraft alarms interrupt school classes throughout Ukraine, which has a negative impact on the quality of the education, which has been affected by the destruction of hundreds of schools and the displacement of millions of children and its teachers. Almost 400 schools and other educational centers have been completely destroyed since the start of […]
Basic education is the ‘Achilles heel’ of technological development in Latin America
The difficulties in education basic are the ‘Achilles heel’ of the technological development of Latin Americasaid this Monday experts gathered in Bogotá where they advocated promoting the improvement of basic skills and then developing “specific special abilities”. “There are many aspects, such as the issue of two languages and specific special skills, that we must […]
UNESCO: Latin America has a “huge” crisis in digital talent and learning
Latin America has a “enormous” crisis of digital talent and learning, since 8 out of 10 sixth grade students do not have the minimum level of reading skills, warned this Tuesday Valtencir Mendes, head of Education of the Regional Office of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean of the UNESCO at the closing of […]
Public policies require an injection of innovation
In a globalized worldknowing the experiences of other countries to face common social problems can be a very enriching task, especially when the learning focuses on methodology. For this reason, the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, Michael Kremer, shared some examples of social experiments that were scaling due to the important benefits obtained for the […]
The vocation, the thread that sustains the work of teachers in Venezuela
The teacher María Eugenia Ceballos woke up before dawn to leave her house on time for her first day of school in the new school year in a public center, where his salary does not exceed six dollars, which he complements with more hours of teaching in a private school, where he receives US$120 more […]
The war jeopardizes the education of Ukrainian children, according to Unicef
The two years of pandemic followed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine threaten the education and school trajectory of Ukrainian children, warned on Tuesday the Fund for United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). The UN agency stresses that both the children who stayed in Ukraine and those who fled the country after the Russian invasion in […]