SANTIAGO — A majority of students from Santiago’s Universidad de Chile come from the upper and upper-middle classes of society, a study financed by the Ministry of Education reveals. According to the survey of 1,032 of the university’s registered students, 73.1 percent come from the social categories ABC1 or C2 – considered the top classes of society [...]
SANTIAGO – The Chamber of Deputies has approved, by a vote of 56 for to 44 against, a new law that reduces the interest rate on state-backed student loans from 6% to 2%. During the debate, María José Hoffmann (UDI party) claimed that the decision was “unfair” and divided students in two different categories, since although state-backed [...]
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SANTIAGO — When Felipe Bulnes resigned from the President’s cabinet this past December, he said that he clearly intended to stay in an executive position. Bulnes’ resignation followed the closing of the vast and lengthy education conflicts. According to sources at the Foreign Ministry, Bulnes accepted the position shortly after leaving his previous cabinet post. [...]
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CONCEPCIÓN - The Avancemos Party (list G, the combination of the Fuerza Universitaria Rebelde and Corriente de Estudiantes Críticos student parties), led by Recaredo Galvez, has won the second round of elections of the Federation of Students of the University of Concepción (FEC). The student leaders won with 2916 votes, beating the unionists Construye UdeC (list F), headed byIsidora Delpino, who recorded only 2010 votes. In a statement to the press [...]
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SANTIAGO- While education has been a hot topic on the streets of Santiago for the past year, including the long running student protests, on Saturday January 14th, Santiago was home to the first Edcamp in South America, held at the Manuel Montt campus of Universidad Mayor The Edcamp movement began in the US, using the idea [...]
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SANTIAGO – In an interview with Spanish newspaper El País, published yesterday ahead of the official release of her first book today, Camila Vallejo commented on the student movement and the problems facing Chile. The vice president of the Fech stated that the student movement “is the initial stepping stone in a social process for [...]
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SANTIAGO- President Sebastián Piñera presented the “Premios Nacionales” awards yesterday, recognizing the best of Chile in various fields of Science, Humanities, and the Arts. The President was joined by newly appointed Education Minister Harald Beyer and Luciano Cruz-Coke, President of the National Council of Arts and Culture. Minister Beyer said of the awards ceremony, “this award [...]
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SANTIAGO — Noam Titelman, president of the Federation of Students at PUC Chile (FEUC), outlined a number of his future objectives in the first assembly of the year of the Confederation of Chilean Students (CONFECH) that took place on Saturday at the school of Arquitecture and Urban Studies at the University of Chile. At the [...]
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SANTIAGO — The decision to change references to the military rule of General Augusto Pinochet from “dictatorship” to “military regime” sparked controversy around the world. Alicia Lira, President of the Association of Relatives of Victims of Political Execution, described the move as “a serious offence to victims of state terrorism.” The criticism has forced the new [...]
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Political controversy has broken out following a vote to change the way Chilean history textbooks describe Pinochet’s rule, swapping “dictatorship” for “regime.” The move by the center-right government has been strongly criticized by the left-wing opposition. The decision was taken by the National Education Council (CNED) in a meeting on Dec.9 after the proposal was made [...]
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