SANTIAGO — Once again, Chilean students have taken to the streets to protest the…
‘Cacerolazo’ for education rings through Valparaíso
About 8:45 p.m., the windows flew open above Cerro Alegre’s Calle Almirante Montt and a wooden spoon started hammering away on a pan in the night air. Other spoons and spatulas soon began hammering other pots and pans. Moments later, a group of angry young people stepped out the front door of that first house [...]
ILC Interview with Cesár Valenzuela
President Piñera’s announcement of a new reform package called GANE (Great National Agreement for Education – Gran Acuerdo Nacional por la Educación / Acuerdo GANE in Spanish) on 5th of July, aiming at educational equality, was supposed to mark a huge step forwards for the university students and pupils protesting against the Chilean educational system. [...]
Chuck E. Cheese’s celebrates “Live Safe, Live Content” campaign
Children’s entertainment centre, Chuck E. Cheese’s, has recently celebrated a successful campaign to assure the safety of young people. The week long ”Live Safe, Live Content” (“Vivo Seguro, Vivo Contento”) programme at the company’s Viña del Mar branch, aimed to teach children aged between 4 and 9 years how to avoid some common risk situations. With a series of [...]
So you want to be an English teacher in Chile?
After finishing secondary school, Soffia Carbone studied graphic design for less than one semester and hated it. She wanted to be an English teacher because she had always loved language, so she started studying at Universidad de Santiago de Chile, and from that moment on, her life started to change. She finally felt like she [...]
Major educational reforms announced
Last night was the moment of truth when, after months of stalemate between school and higher education students and the Ministry of Education, the President of the Republic, Sebastián Piñera, stepped in to announce a series of reforms that would improve the quality, access and finance of the educational system in Chile. Describing the challenge [...]
UNESCO supports education debate in Chile
UNESCO has issued a statement in support of the calls for change to Chile’s education system by students and teachers alike. The statement, released on Friday July 1st, reads: “UNESCO is following the events affecting the education sector in Chile. UNESCO is heartened to see the importance given to education by the people of Chile [...]
In defence of the cause
Massive protests took place yesterday across all of Chile, to demand free and better education. While many sections of the media emphasised the vandalism caused by a small section of antisocial students, with respect to the organisers, the university student leaders and teaching staff, everything happened with order. At 11am, the Santiago march started in [...]
PuroChile in DuocUC
Students of Public Relations at the Duoc UC (Duoc – Catholic University of Chile) of San Carlos de Apoquindo successfully conducted the first edition of the PuroChile event (26 May). PuroChile intends to analyze the impact of brands originating in Chile in new luxury markets. I Love Chile, which provides Chilean news in English, was [...]
Municipal Theatre opens up the arts to young people
Operas, concerts and ballet will become part of the of the academic training of more than 14.000 children this year. Thanks to an alliance between Santiago’s Teatro Municipal and the Luksic Foundation, the theatre’s artistic programme will be included in the Language, Communication and Music curriculum of high school and higher educational students. The initiative [...]
My first time in the US, the land of opportunities
Ximena Figueroa San Martin is an English teacher at the Universidad del Mar, who was selected for an exchange program for teachers of English. The only Chilean teacher selected, Ximena enjoyed a trip to the Unites States thanks to the “International Visitor Leadership Program” run by the US State Department and the US Embassy. My [...]