News of education

Court declares decree halting university funding 'unconstitutional'

07-10-2026 12:06 Dispute over university funding dates back to last year when the Javier Milei Presidency vetoed the bill and Congress insisted on approval – now the courts have again ruled in favour of the latter.

As I see it

We do need more education

11-09-2026 09:28 Argentine youngsters continue to fall farther and farther behind their peers in the rest of the world.

by James Neilson

EDUCATION

Argentina's PISA scores fall, Milei government blames predecessors

08-09-2026 14:56 PISA education test scores fall compared to 2022, prompting blame game; Results for 15-year-olds declined in maths, reading and science, renewing debate over the state of education.

As I see it

Education everywhere is due for an overhaul

01-08-2026 11:40 Throughout the world there are millions of people, many of whom are now middle-aged or on the verge of retirement, with university degrees of one kind or another who, to their despair, have found out that they do not guarantee them a well-paying job.

by James Neilson

POLITICS & EDUCATION

Supreme Court orders Milei government to fund universities

25-06-2026 23:23 Ruling upholds university financing law vetoed by the President and ends a two-year legal battle over funding, salaries and student support.

EDUCATION & SOCIETY

Educational inequality: Nation's poorest children missing out on pre-school

27-05-2026 12:35 Study by Argentinos por la Educación NGO finds sharp social divide in nursery school attendance rates; Despite great improvements on enrollment over the past decade, nation still lags behind in the region.

by Juan Pablo Kavanagh

WOMEN IN SCIENCE

Scientist wins global award for her work on ‘drought-resistant’ crops

20-05-2026 13:51 Researcher Raquel Chan, a member of the CONICET scientific research council and Director of the Agrobiotechnology Institute at the National University of the Litoral, awarded L’Oréal-UNESCO International Prize; Her work on plant genes has opened up a new era for global food security.

by Enrique Garabetyan

EDUCATION

Historic Córdoba school set for first female director in 339 years

20-05-2026 12:46 The Colegio Nacional de Monserrat, one of Argentina’s oldest and most prestigious secondary schools, will celebrate its 339th anniversary this year and, for the first time in its history, it will be led by a woman. Two tickets have entered the race to lead the school, both headed by teachers with distinguished careers at the institution founded in 1687.

Editorial

Reiterated Infrastructural Gaps Ignored

16-05-2026 06:51 Both the quantity and quality of Argentina’s public universities are up for discussion – a right which the government would earn if they were ready to pump more funds into areas which could fuel progress instead of just blindly cutting.

Marcha Federal Universitaria

Tens of thousands demonstrate against Milei cuts to university budgets

12-05-2026 21:48 Fourth ‘Marcha Federal Universitaria’ draws large crowd in capital, rallies in several cities nationwide; Protesters slam cutbacks to sector as MIlei government announces further reductions are on the way.

EDUCATION

Argentina will lose 1.2 million primary pupils by 2030

12-02-2026 08:38 Primary school enrolment is projected to fall by 27% by end of the decade; New estimate forecasts 1.2 million fewer students by 2030 than in 2023.

by Enrique Garabetyan

GOVERNMENT SPENDING

CEPA: Milei splashed cash on intelligence, slashed social budget in 2025

12-01-2026 18:50 Report by CEPA think tank reveals cutbacks in sensitive areas; Sharp real-terms cuts to health, science, social development and public works last year, while intelligence funding jumped 52%.

EDUCATION & ECONOMY

Education spending in real terms drops to lowest since 2006

28-11-2025 12:41 Education Secretariat has 1.2 trillion pesos less (at 2025 prices) budgeted than in 2006. One of the hardest-hit programmes is the Teaching Salary Compensation Fund, which has gone from 1.5 trillion pesos a decade ago to just one billion pesos today. What will happen in the 2026 Budget Congress has yet to approve.

by Agustina Bordigoni

EDUCATION

Secondary school crisis: Only 1 in 10 students finish studies on time and to standard, warns report

29-09-2025 17:50 Argentina’s Education Secretariat provides details of plan to tackle secondary school dropouts and school lag after report from NGO highlights shocking figures.

by Juan Pablo Kavanagh

'TODAY WE BURN JEWS!'

Milei condemns anti-Semitic chants by school pupils on Bariloche trip

29-09-2025 12:48 President Milei condemns "reprehensible" video of anti-Semitic chanting by school students on graduation trip in Bariloche.

MARCHA FEDERAL PROTEST

Protesters cheer Milei veto defeat at Marcha Federal for universities, paediatric care

17-09-2025 20:38 Thousands rally outside Congress as lawmakers in lower house vote to reject vetoes on bills to boost funding for public universities and Argentina’s leading children’s hospital, a major blow for President Javier Milei.

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Budget 2026: Government sends balanced bill eyeing 5% growth

16-09-2025 09:29 Government projects increases for pensions, education, health and disability programmes; Inflation in 2026 will be an annual 10.1%, according to text of bill.

Demonstration in Buenos Aires

Doctors and university staff stage protest against Milei vetoes

13-09-2025 09:33 Protesters take to streets, calling on lawmakers to overturn presidential vetoes on funding bills for paediatric care and state universities.

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Milei vetoes state university funding bill, escalating conflict

10-09-2025 22:38 President vetoes in full bill proposing new funding for state universities, pay rises for teaching and non-teaching staff; Move will increase tensions with education workers and opposition.

POLITICS

Milei gets Tuttle Twins to teach free markets to kids

29-05-2025 08:53 President Javier Milei is relaunching a state-run TV channel for kids set to feature a cartoon teaching free-market economics while stressing the evils of taxes and communism.

Community

Pioneering women’s ed club celebrates 90th year

09-05-2025 18:39 University Women’s Club of Buenos Aires enters tenth decade, celebrates with new exhibition marking its rich history at UCA library.

by Michael Soltys

EDUCATION

Literacy crisis: Less than half of kids under nine meet reading standards

07-05-2025 11:00 Argentina’s Education Secretariat publishes first results from Aprender assessment under Milei administration. Provinces of Formosa and Córdoba achieved strongest results, Chaco at bottom of ranking.

STATE & RELIGION

Church, Milei government play nice despite tensions, distrust

27-04-2025 20:35 Death of Pope Francis shines a spotlight on the relationship between Argentina’s religious leaders, the clergy and President Javier Milei’s government.

by Juan Pablo Kavanagh

Digital Learning

UK's first AI classroom without teachers sparks debate

28-01-2025 12:39 Computers are teaching core curriculum subjects to students at David Game College in an artificial intelligence pilot as UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledges to make Britain an "AI superpower."

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.

EDUCATION ROW

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.

POLITICS

Milei says state universities not under threat as occupations multiply

15-10-2024 17:13 As student takeovers of campuses multiply nationwide, President Milei says Argentina's public university system is “not under discussion” but vows auditing of state institutions will take place.

As I see it

There are no easy answers in education

12-10-2024 06:59 Living as we do in an egalitarian age, many educationalists are reluctant to take into account another unfortunate fact: people have different talents

by James Neilson

EDITORIAL

Reducing the issue

12-10-2024 06:16 Both sides fall into the error of reducing this issue to a budget tussle without bringing up the major structural problems of university education.

Analysing Argentina

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