Posts Tagged ‘Derecho a la educación’
Teachers’ Pay
In a just society, merit and effort are reflected in a person’s pay for his or her job. This idea is illustrated in a famous quote from Bill Clinton: “if you work hard and don’t break the rules, you can expect the country to give you an opportunity to a decent life and that your kids will have a better life than you did.”
Read MoreCarlos Gaviria, in Memóriam
When I studied law in Medellin, what I liked was philosophy, or more specifically, legal philosophy.
Read MoreWhere Are Taxes in Human Rights?
How are taxes connected to human rights or how should they be? Why should human rights researchers and activists in the Global South care about taxes?
Read MoreBetween All or Nothing
According to the government, the program “Merit Pays” (Spanish “Ser Pilo Paga”) is an educational revolution.
Read MoreBlog to the Supporters of “Merit Pays”
The programs “Merit Pays” (Spanish “Ser Pilo Paga”) that the national government recently inaugurated has been met with differing reactions. The debate deals with two positions: on one hand, there are those that highlight its benefits: the program promotes the social mobility of a talented group of young people while it also installs greater diversity and inclusion in private universities. On the other hand, there are those who, like us, are not so convinced and argue that the program directs public funds to the private sector instead of strengthening public tertiary education and that it restricts access to university education to an exceptional minority of high school graduates, excluding the majority.
Read MoreThe Meritorious Students’ Scholarships
Last year I wrote a column in which I told Victor’s story, a young man from Aguadas (Caldas) whom I know since he was a little boy.
Read MoreMerit Pays
The start of the government programs “Merit Pays” (Spanish “Ser Pilo Paga”) which gives university scholarships to the very best low-income students reminded me of the story of a young Gabriel García Márquez when he arrived from the Caribbean coast to Bogotá.
Read MoreFree Consultants
At the end of the year, when increases in the minimum wage are negotiated, discussions about the meaning of wages and work are reignited. A great part of the opposition to increases to wages are related to, for example, the fact that its value serves more as a unit of value for multiple things (like warrants, taxes, compensation payments) and less as a value for the recompense for labor.
Read MoreSeparate and Unequal: Education and Social Class in Colombia
Using empirical evidence from state-administered exams, this book shows how public education in Colombia is a segregated system. It is a system that is separate and unequal, violating the right to non-discrimination and equal opportunity enshrined in Colombia´s Constitution.
Read MoreIntervention relating to free primary education
Dejusticia intervened in a lawsuit to declare charging fees for public primary schools unconstitutional.
Read MoreSix Cities, Four Countries, One Law: A Comparative Analysis of Educational Politics
This book offers a collection of essays that analyze and compare the educational public politics of Bogotá with those other cities and other countries in Latin America.
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