Tag: Harald Beyer

• Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 01:59 UTC

  Chile begins implementing education reforms demanded by massive student protests

  

  The state, not banks, are to fund higher education scholarships through the creation of a new specialized government agency, Chile’s Education minister, Harald Beyer, announced in a press conference at La Moneda on Monday.

• Thursday, January 5th 2012 - 05:01 UTC

  In Chilean schools, General Pinochet’ rule will be known as “a military regime”

  

  A political row has broken out in Chile after it emerged that the Conservative government is changing the way school textbooks refer to the military rule of Gen Augusto Pinochet.