Tag: education

• Friday, August 21st 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  Bolsonaro makes the academic more attendance flexible

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro enacted a law to exempt schools from having to meet a minimum number of school days amid the Covid-19 pandemic, making this academic year more flexible.

• Monday, May 11th 2020 - 07:36 UTC

  UK schools and shops to begin opening June first; Outdoor exercises and some sports from Wednesday

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday announced a phased plan to ease a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, with schools and shops to begin opening from Jun 1 - as long as infection rates stay low.

• Monday, May 4th 2020 - 07:13 UTC

  Bolsonaro claims WHO encourages homosexuality and masturbation among children

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said the World Health Organisation encourages homosexuality and masturbation among young children, his latest clash with an organization whose advice on social distancing and other anti-coronavirus measures he has repeatedly questioned.

• Saturday, May 2nd 2020 - 06:50 UTC

  UK universities under financial stress: lockdowns and absence of foreign students

  

  With conferences cancelled and revenues hit because of a lack of rent from student accommodation, Britain's universities are reeling from the global coronavirus pandemic. Schools have already lost millions of pounds thanks to enforced closures under lockdown, and things could get worse still.

• Wednesday, January 8th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  University entrance exams in Chile disrupted by students protesting elitism

  

  University entrance exams to be taken by 300,000 students around Chile were disrupted in some cities by fresh protests over inequality and elitism, with some students blocking access to test sites and burning exam papers.

• Saturday, January 4th 2020 - 09:04 UTC

  UK needs super talented “weirdos and mistifs” and no more “Oxbridge” graduates

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose Conservative Party trounced Labour in last month's elections, has vowed to strike new trade deals with countries outside Europe after Britain's departure from the European Union.

• Saturday, November 2nd 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Privatized services plus health, education and pension's costs, the right blend for Chile's social explosion

  

  It is not poverty that is driving Chile's middle class into the streets to join massive protests: it is debt, brought on by sky-high private health and education costs that have created an economic fragility many find unbearable.

• Wednesday, May 8th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  Hundreds march in Rio to protest education federal funding cuts by Bolsonaro's administration

  

  Hundreds of students and professors protested against public education funding cuts outside a military high school in Brazil where far-right President Jair Bolsonaro was attending a ceremony. Bolsonaro’s conservative government sparked outrage last week when it revealed at least 30% cuts to the annual budgets of federally funded high schools and universities.

• Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina's start of new school year postponed by teachers' strike

  

  Argentina’s new school year, scheduled to start on Wednesday, was widely postponed until next week by a three-day strike by teachers who say their wages are not keeping up with inflation.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 09:41 UTC

  Education purge in Brazil: national anthem and Bolsonaro's campaign slogan in all schools

  

  Brazil’s new right-wing government requested on Monday that schools film their students singing the national anthem and that a message including President Jair Bolsonaro’s campaign slogan be read aloud to classes.