The problems facing Colombia’s public universities
As education reform is put on the back burner, the core problems affecting Colombia’s system of higher education continue to fester as public universities continue to expand and budgets fail…
As education reform is put on the back burner, the core problems affecting Colombia’s system of higher education continue to fester as public universities continue to expand and budgets fail…
Mass university student riots broke out in Bogota on Wednesday, shutting down major road networks and leaving 3 policemen injured, local media reported.
Around 1,000 students protested took to the streets of the Colombian capital Bogota demanding mayor Gustavo Petro take actions against corruption in the city’s academic institutions, national media reported Monday.
A sociology student at a Colombian university has been killed by the explosion of a home-made bomb.
Colombia’s national student union launched a two-day protests campaign on Tuesday to pressure the government to make substantive steps toward a pending education reform.
Indigenous organizing groups partnered with student activists and other populist social movements Tuesday for a national demonstration to mark the start of indefinite protests.
Colombia’s main student organization on Monday announced to shut down higher education on October 16 and 17 to force the government to make progress in education reforms promised years ago.
Colombia’s national university student union (MANE) is planning a nationwide torch-bearing protest for Wednesday, as a show of support for the start of a teachers strike and an ongoing agricultural…
Faced with the growing possibility of a national university strike, the government on Tuesday moved to approve the distribution of new funds to Colombia’s public universities.