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Montevideo, May 22nd 2026 - 02:58 UTC

Tag: education

  • Tuesday, May 12th 2026 - 13:14 UTC

    Argentina sees new university protest as government pledges post-march dialogue

    The National Interuniversity Council estimates that transfers to national universities fell by 45.6% in real terms between 2023 and 2026, while sector salaries rose 158% against accumulated inflation

    Argentina's public universities are staging the fourth Federal University March on Tuesday against the budget adjustment imposed by Javier Milei's government, with the main rally in Plaza de Mayo and simultaneous mobilizations in the country's major cities, while the national administration announced it will meet with rectors after the protest to discuss the allocation of funds for university hospitals. The day combines a strike with suspended classes, a broad opposition turnout, and an official discursive shift aimed at opening a dialogue channel without yielding on the substance of the dispute.

  • Monday, September 29th 2025 - 10:45 UTC

    Banning cell phones in Brazilian classrooms yields positive results

    The Brazilian law prohibiting student use of cell phones in schools was enacted in January 2025

    A survey conducted by the Joint Parliamentary Front for Education, in partnership with Equidade.info, an initiative of the Lemann Center at Stanford Graduate School of Education, showed that 88% of students said they paid more attention in class. In high school alone, this progress was admitted by 70% of interviewees.

  • Tuesday, January 14th 2025 - 10:23 UTC

    Lula signs into law the banning of cell phones in elementary schools

    We need to go back to allowing humanism not to be replaced by algorithms,” Lula stressed

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed Monday into law Bill 104/2015 restricting the use of portable electronic devices such as cell phones in public and private elementary schools nationwide. A presidential decree is due in the next 30 days to regulate the measure so that it becomes valid by the start of the school year in February. The bill was approved by Congress at the end of last year.

  • Wednesday, April 24th 2024 - 10:47 UTC

    Massive demonstrations across Argentina defend public education amid budget cuts

    In Buenos Aires, the epicenter of the mobilization, demonstrators congregated in front of the Argentine Congress before marching towards Casa Rosada. Photo: EFE

    Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and workers flooded the streets of Argentina in a historic display of unity against proposed budget cuts to public education. The demonstrations, which took place in over twenty cities across the country, marked one of the largest protests in the last 20 years of Argentine democracy.

  • Wednesday, March 13th 2024 - 19:51 UTC

    Brazil: Lula launches 100 new educational training centers

    Education is an investment; building a prison is spending, Lula argued

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launched 100 new campuses of Federal Institutes of Education, Science, and Technology (IFS) this week nationwide because “it is through education that we will become a first-world country.”

  • Thursday, March 30th 2023 - 10:07 UTC

    Falklands, changes made to the provision of Camp Education

    Portfolio holder for Education and Community, MLA Leona Roberts said: “Access to good education is of fundamental importance for everyone in the Falkland Islands”.

    In August 2022 the Falkland Islands ExCo approved a set of recommendations on the way that Camp Education is provided to families. The recommendations were made after extensive consultation with the communities in Camp and in Stanley during the Camp Education Review. A key objective of the review was ensuring that children in Camp and Stanley have the same standard of education.

  • Wednesday, September 21st 2022 - 09:58 UTC

    Falklands new Director of Education: ex Principal and Chief Executive of City College Southampton

    Ms Stannard is knowledgeable of the Falklands which she visited as Vice Principal at Chichester College.

    The Falkland Islands Government has announced the appointment of Sarah Stannard as the new Director of Education, who arrived in the Islands on Monday 12 September 2022. Sarah read History at Kings’ College London and, more recently gained a Masters in Education at the University of Southampton.

  • Saturday, May 14th 2022 - 07:29 UTC

    Should a 12-year-old sign contract with parents to have a cell phone?

    “Repeated non-compliance will result in the definitive loss of the phone,” the document ends

    A Twitter user who goes by the alias of “Judge the Ripper” launched a survey seeking approval for a measure he and his wife allegedly devised to buy their 12-year-old daughter a cell phone.

  • Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

    World Bank-UNESCO-UNICEF report lays out the magnitude of the education crisis and costs for future generations

    Simulations estimating that school closures resulted in significant learning losses are now being corroborated by real data.

    This generation of students now risks losing US$ 17 trillion in lifetime earnings in present value, or about 14% of today’s global GDP, as a result of COVID-19 pandemic-related school closures, according to a new report published today by the World Bank, UNESCO, and UNICEF. The new projection reveals that the impact is more severe than previously thought, and far exceeds the US$ 10 trillion estimates released in 2020.

  • Saturday, July 17th 2021 - 06:13 UTC

    Argentine Health Ministry needs 10,000 wooden penises for educational purposes

    The items are to be used in training people on how to use protection from STDs

    Argentina's Health Ministry has called for tenders to purchase a large assortment of items, including 10,000 wooden human penises for educational purposes, it was reported.

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