Posts Tagged ‘Educación’
Dejusticia launches virtual platform for its alumni
We know how important it is to strengthen the links between activists and members of civil society organizations that participate in our academic and training activities, so we present: ‘Dejusticia Connect’.
Read MoreMourning
Last week, two young students resolved a seemingly unimportant dispute with arms. Hopefully the collective mourning for these two boys, their families, and for society itself serves to recognize the marked setback in educational policy, a product, among other reasons, of Ministry of Education’s politicization.
Read MoreEconomic Thinking, Economists’ Education and Human Rights
Economic thinking and education must have an approach that protects what really matters: human rights
Read MoreTeachers’ 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 MoreBetween All or Nothing
According to the government, the program “Merit Pays” (Spanish “Ser Pilo Paga”) is an educational revolution.
Read MoreRegarding Maps and Theories
A good social theory should not be overly complex nor too simple.
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 MoreBetween Idealism and Cynicism
Last Sunday the paper published an article by James Robinson where he argued that it is not possible to modernize the country with programs of land redistribution, as the negotiations in Havana seek to do.
Read MoreEducation and Equity
The Saber exam results 11 disclosures in the past weeks are not very encouraging.
Read MoreLet’s Talk about Education
The most important questions and the best answers. A better country in the short or long term, one way or another, will come from reforming education in Colombia
Read MoreSeparate and Unequal: Education and Social Class in Colombia
Elementary and high school students live in two separate and unequal worlds, because the quality of the education they receive is very different. What can we do to close this gap?
Read MoreIntervention: Right to Education of Persons with Disabilities
Dejusticia appeared before the Constitutional Court regarding a constitutional challenge (tutela) by a student who had been granted a loan for students with disabilities, but was then denied loan forgiveness.
Read MoreOnline education and the Classroom Dictatorship
Why do professors insist on teaching the same course over and over? When did teaching became “lecturing”?
Read MoreThe National University is Really in Crisis
The fact that more than half of the buildings of the main public university in Colombia are at high risk of vulnerability and four percent of them are in imminent risk of collapse generates indignation.
Read MoreScholars and Journalists
It is regrettable that the debate about academic fraud in Colombia has broken out surrounding the case of the scientist Raúl Cuero. But it would be even more regrettable if the debate turned against the researcher Rodrigo Bernal, who did nothing more than what his job demands: to rigorously investigate and publish what he finds (in this case, Cuero’s real record).
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