News of education

Students are turning on Milei after helping him win power

11-12-2024 14:18 President Milei derides universities as bastions of wokeness and elitism. But publicly funded higher education is a point of civic pride. Now, graduates are turning on Milei after helping him win power.

Students take classes onto streets to protest Milei's university cutbacks

16-10-2024 16:20 Student demonstrators stage open classes on the streets of Buenos Aires as they draw attention to cutbacks on state higher education institutions imposed by President Javier Milei's government.

Milei’s deserved but premature celebration

12-10-2024 06:09 If two highly sensitive issues like pensions and universities fail to gather the two-thirds majority needed to overturn vetoes, President Milei can rest assured that his executive powers will remain intact for another year.

by Marcelo J. García

Striking teachers, students on war footing against Milei's austerity

10-10-2024 23:11 As students occupy university faculties across the country, the government warns such actions are “a crime” and asks the courts to intervene and order evictions.

It’s the education, stupid

05-10-2024 06:24 When presenting the 2025 Budget in mid-September, Milei defined his fundamental fiscal principle as first defining the available revenue and then adjusting the spending to it – modernising the university system to that end could be an interesting application of that principle. But instead his primitive proposal is literally to cut university spending in half with his chainsaw.

Milei vetoes law despite huge march in support of state universities

03-10-2024 01:09 President Javier Milei has made good on threats to veto proposed increases to university funding, with the measure made official early Thursday after a day of major student-led protests.

Students, professors fear impact of university funding bill veto

28-09-2024 15:52 What do university staff and students want from Javier Milei’s government?

Higher learning versus hire learning

21-09-2024 06:19 There is no chance of improving the quality of higher education without doing something about the quantity of both universities and students.

by Michael Soltys

Incarcerated reap benefits of in-prison university education scheme

31-08-2024 06:08 University education programmes in prisons deliver inmates a brighter future and help reduce recidivism. Journalist Jesús Cabral is just one who has reaped the rewards of the innovative CUSAM in-prison education project. “I’ve had many moments of crisis since I got out, but I haven’t reofferend,” he explains.

by Josefina Salomon

Teaching staff at public universities stage 48-hour strike

20-08-2024 12:06 Strike at state universities gets underway with no classes scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday; Unions claim the government's wage renegotiation proposal is insufficient as Milei administration looks to cut costs.

Missing the point

27-04-2024 05:38 Milei misread the demonstration as “the caste” riding a noble cause to defend its interests but the scale, spontaneity and peaceful nature of the protest argue against this bid to politicise the march.

Give us more education

27-04-2024 05:07 Though academe has been on iron rations for decades, with professors long being accustomed to having to survive on a pittance, the feeling that Milei had it in for the universities because he thinks they breed lefties gave teeth to Tuesday’s demonstrations.

by James Neilson

Pre-paid or re-paid?

20-04-2024 05:14 Subordinating medical fees to the dictates of a usually populist government did not work since it placed pricing hopelessly out of sync with the costs, but the naïve faith that the market could correct the damage of years in three months was a non-starter.

UBA students and teachers demonstrate against Milei's cutbacks

19-04-2024 10:25 Students and teachers of the University of Buenos Aires protested with public classes in the street and symbolic embraces of buildings against the government’s drastic austerity.

Six out of every 10 schoolchildren in Argentina are poor, says UCA

13-03-2024 16:21 A report by UCA's Social Debt Observatory exposes complex situation facing Argentine children and youths who attend educational institutions.

Milei tells schoolchildren that abortion is 'aggravated murder' due to 'familial bond'

06-03-2024 10:58 President Javier Milei uses speech to young children at his old school to criticise "green scarf murderers," declaring abortion is "aggravated murder" because of "familial bond" between mother and foetus.

In danger of extinction? Middle class slammed by crisis and austerity measures

16-01-2024 17:16 The removal of subsidies, rising rent and the increased costs of prepaid healthcare schemes and private schools are slamming the middle class, specialists warn. March will be a difficult month with the start of classes and the billing of basic public services shooting up.

by Agustina Bordigoni

Alarming figures: 7 in 10 students don't reach basic levels in maths

06-12-2023 14:43 PISA 2022 2022 scholastic tests show five out of every 10 pupils in Argentina not meeting minimal levels in language and science; Seven out of every 10 students do not reach basic levels in maths, study shows.

Schools for scandal

07-07-2023 13:05 An eternal orphan of election campaigns, education has started to creep into public discussion despite stiff competition from the usual headlines.

Argentina's university student numbers rose 40% in decade, says report

05-07-2023 21:57 Over 2.5 million students nationwide were engaged in undergraduate and postgraduate level studies in 2021, according to new Education Ministry report.

by Enrique Garabetyan