ELN occupies Bogota university square
Armed guerrillas wearing ELN bandanas and armbands occupied the central square of Bogota’s main university on Thursday. Under an ELN banner, the guerrillas, armed with semiautomatic weapons and pistols, stood…
Armed guerrillas wearing ELN bandanas and armbands occupied the central square of Bogota’s main university on Thursday. Under an ELN banner, the guerrillas, armed with semiautomatic weapons and pistols, stood…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court said Tuesday that a policy of free and compulsory elementary school education must be implemented around the country immediately The court made the ruling after analyzing law…
Fifteen thousand Colombian police officers have been assigned to schools across the country to guarantee the security of students and teachers. Drugs, weapons, and violence are endemic within the Colombian…
Colombian hip-shaker Shakira flew by private jet to the earthquake-ravaged city of Port-au-Prince in Haiti on Sunday to meet child survivors and discuss the construction of a school, reports Reuters. Along…
Green Party presidential candidate Antanas Mockus says that he considers a dialogue with the FARC guerrilla group to be unlikely, due to their policy of kidnapping. Speaking to Caracol Radio,…
A report released by Cordoba’s education secretary reveals that some 1,000 children did not return to school this year after their families were displaced by conflict in the northern Colombian…
The Colombian government-run technical institute SENA, which focuses on offering students practical and technical educational courses, announced new plans to open sister institutes in the United States, reported La Republica…
A state-funded program plans to help more than 1.5 million Colombian families overcome extreme poverty, and a million families have already been helped by the scheme, according to a government…
The campaign “Computers for Schools,” run by the Colombian Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, last year provided educational institutions around the country with more than 230,000 computers, the ministry’s…