Posts Tagged ‘Ministerio de Educación’
Between 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 MoreCalculus or Statistics?
Should 10th and 11th grade students learn to do derivatives and integrals if they dislike it and will not use it again? Would it not be better for these students to instead redirect their efforts to gain basic knowledge of statistics, which in today’s world is seemingly necessary in order to be a competent adult?
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 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.
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