Tag: students

• Thursday, September 27th 2012 - 17:19 UTC

  Piñera signs reform bill but students insist with free and better higher education

  

  Chilean president Sebastián Piñera promulgated on Wednesday the education review bill which besides increasing funding by a billion dollars reduces from 6% to 2% the interest rate on loans for students to finance their university fees.

• Friday, August 31st 2012 - 00:56 UTC

  Piñera promised an end to police brutality during student protest marches

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera said that his government would not tolerate police brutality. The remarks came after the police was accused of mistreating student protesters who were demanding educational reforms.

• Friday, August 24th 2012 - 00:54 UTC

  Thousands of Chilean students march demanding education reform

  

  Thousands of young Chileans marched peacefully on Thursday in different cities demanding education reform and equal conditions and rights for all young Chileans, amid a heightened police presence.

• Thursday, May 17th 2012 - 10:30 UTC

  Thousands of students take to the streets of Santiago calling for a fairer and quality education

  

  Tens of thousands of students demonstrated on the streets of Chile's capital Wednesday seeking an overhaul of what they call one of the world's priciest and most unfair educational systems.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2012 - 06:04 UTC

  Chilean students’ leader rejoices with WSJ calling her a “red-diaper baby”

  

  Camila Vallejo, Chile’s iconic students’ federation vice-president replied in her twitter to a scathing editorial from the Wall Street Journal saying the critique was evidence that Chilean public opinion is ‘becoming conscious’ and is ‘advancing’.

• Friday, April 27th 2012 - 11:24 UTC

  Piñera announces tax reform to fund an education overhaul that threatens his government

  

  Chile's government on Thursday proposed a sweeping tax reform that raises levies on companies to help fund an education overhaul, as it seeks to quell social protests ahead of local elections seen as a litmus test for the 2013 presidential race.

• Thursday, April 26th 2012 - 05:48 UTC

  Chilean students take to the streets in support of education reform

  

  Tens of thousands of students took to the streets in Chile in support of education reform. Organisers said at least 50.000 marched in the capital Santiago on Wednesday, with police saying 25.000 attended.

• 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.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2011 - 02:22 UTC

  Chilean student leader Camila Vallejo, person of the year for The Guardian

  

  Chile’s 23-year-old student leader Camila Vallejo, has been chosen as the person of the year in a poll of readers of British newspaper, The Guardian. Vallejo, the international face of 2011’s student protests in Chile, topped the poll with an overwhelming 78% of votes.

• Thursday, November 24th 2011 - 15:00 UTC

  The inequality behind Chile’s prosperity

  

  By COHA guest scholar Silvia Viñas
  Foreigners on business trips usually travel from Chile’s Santiago International Airport to the city’s financial center in the El Golf neighborhood via the Costanera Norte or Vespucio Norte highways.