UK offers funds for development of Science and Innovation projects in Uruguay

Monday, August 17th 2015 - 07:28 UTC

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The British Embassy in Montevideo offers funds to collaborate with the development of Science and Innovation in Uruguay through financing cooperation projects between Uruguayan and British researchers and institutions. Read full article

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ChrisR
This sounds like a good idea but it may be an embarrassment for Uruguay.

Of all the young Uni students I know (I do my best with application of computers and allied subjects, tailored to the student's problems) only two males are training to be electrical engineers and that's it from the sciences.

I have three females doing economics and it is clear that the Uni Lecturer has real problems herself understanding what the subject is about.

No mathematics, no physics, no industrial chemists and no electronic engineers. No hard sciences to speak of.

It is very upsetting to see the vast majority of Secondary / High School students not going into the Universities, many of which are private and a VERY mixed bad indeed.

I am really looking forward to seeing how many schemes will be launched: I hope they prove me wrong.
Aug 17th, 2015 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ynsere
Chris @ 1

Uruguayan students' difficulties with maths start in primary school, and with physics in middle school. This has been happening for many years.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 03:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 2 ynsere

I thought it must be systemic, but having the idiots in charge of the Education Department under The Broad Fraud has not helped one bit.

The present one, a doctor no less, has already started to mess with it again.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 05:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ynsere
Chris @ 2

Until some years ago, state teaching entities were unofficially in the hands of the masons. Little by little leftists gained sway, especially after the end of the dictatorship, and they ruined “public” education. When I was a kid there were far fewer private schools than nowadays - and they were mainly faith or foreign community entities. As a rule, parents did not feel it was necessary to pay for education because the free state institutions were so good - from kindergarten to university.

Some of the more traditional private entities:

Community Schools: The British Schools (a single entity despite the plural name), German School, Italian School, Lycée Français, Armenian School, American School.

Faith Schools: Seminario, Sagrada Familia, Maristas, Vascos, Teresas, Hermanas Alemanas, Dominicas, Sacre Coeur, Jesús María, La Mennais, Christian Brothers (all R. Catholic); Crandon Institute (Methodist). The
Jewish schools were established more recently.

Others: José Pedro Varela, Elbio Fernández (Masonic), Liceo Militar (Armed Forces), Logosófico.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 08:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 4 ynsere

The British Schools in MVD is excellent, I have personally met the senior staff and talked to a good number of the students.

It is the same in TDC.

My next door neighbour was educated at the school in BsAs and made sure that all his children were able to be schooled there and does it show!
Aug 18th, 2015 - 09:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ynsere
Chris @ 5

There must be a misunderstanding. The British Schools in Montevideo is independent and has no branches in Uruguay or abroad. Over 100 years old, it is a non-profit organization owned by the British Community in Uruguay and governed by a board drawn from the Community. It has become increasingly expensive but every penny is reinvested. Some of the staff are British. The reason for the plural name is that it stemmed from the union of the British Community's boys' and girls' schools, which used to be separate entities.
Perhaps your neighbour went to Saint George's in Quilmes, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires? It used to be a boys-only boarding school, but that has changed. Or St. Andrew's in BA?
Aug 19th, 2015 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 6 ynsere

Now you have me.

I realised that some of the staff were 'local' but the main lady who spoke with me was a Brit. The kids were great and very keen to show off their school.

I will have to ask my neighbour for clarification but I would have sworn he said 'British School' in BsAs but wherever it was he speaks brilliant English as do his children.
Aug 19th, 2015 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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