News of teaching

City Hall: Children will return to schools in August with normal timetables

19-07-2021 17:12 Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta announces "gradual, careful and progressive" plan to return 700,000 students to in-person classes as schools.

Coronavirus pandemic

Rodríguez Larreta: Classes at schools in City will restart on Monday

28-05-2021 21:33 Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta says that in-person classes at schools in the capital will restart this Monday, when the government-imposed nine-day lockdown ends.

BLOW FOR GOVERNMENT

Supreme Court rules in favour of City Hall in education dispute

04-05-2021 13:17 Supreme Court rules in favour of the Buenos Aires City government in its education dispute with the national government, confirming City Hall has the right to decide whether in-person classes in the capital should continue.

Education row

Rodríguez Larreta: Classes will continue until Supreme Court rules

30-04-2021 22:13 Buenos Aires City mayor says infant and primary school students will continue with in-person classes, with secondary students adopting a 'mixed model.' City Hall also announces new restrictions for businesses, shopping and other activities.

Education row

Supreme Court to rule on education dispute ‘towards end of week’

26-04-2021 19:20 Argentina's highest court expected to decide on the row over in-person classes between the National and Buenos Aires City governments “towards the end of the week,” according to City Hall sources.

Education row

City Hall tells schools to carry on with classes, despite new court ruling

20-04-2021 23:26 Federal judge reignites education row between the Buenos Aires City and National governments, annulling previous court order authorising in-person classes at schools. City Hall, however, refuses to back down.

EDUCATION ROW

Supreme Court says it will rule on row over in-person classes

19-04-2021 16:37 Supreme Court declares itself "competent" to take on the issue and will settle the education row between the Buenos Aires City government and the national government.

Education row

Rodríguez Larreta: Schools in City will have classes tomorrow

19-04-2021 00:07 Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta announces that he will adhere to court ruling and that schools in the nation’s capital will be open on Monday.

NEW RESTRICTIONS

Argentina's schools become political battleground after curbs

16-04-2021 17:13 Decision to shut down schools has become the latest point of political conflict between the federal government and the City of Buenos Aires, run by the opposition, as the country heads into a second wave of Covid-19.

BACK TO SCHOOL

Schools in Argentina finally re-open doors to students

17-02-2021 14:54 Schoolchildren from five of Argentina's 24 regional districts returned to classrooms on Wednesday for the first time in almost a year, as the country began a gradual restart of face-to-face classes.

Back to school

Trotta vows face-to-face classes for students 'at least three times a week'

01-02-2021 18:27 As tensions between unions and officials continue, Education Minister Nicolás Trotta says schools will be allowed to have face-to-face classes three times a week.

Coronavirus pandemic

Education minister targets March 1 for return of face-to-face classes

02-12-2020 00:05 Education Minister Nicolás Trotta says face-to-face classes will be "essential" next year and says government is targeting March 1 return for classes in 17 provinces.

Coronavirus pandemic

Dozen secondary schools re-open doors in Buenos Aires City

13-10-2020 16:44 Twelve schools re-opened their doors in the capital on Tuesday, with teachers hosting the first face-to-face classes in Buenos Aires City for seven months.

Coronavirus pandemic

Students in San Juan Province happy to be back in the classroom

10-08-2020 23:54 Students in the last years of primary and secondary school return to their desks, in groups of no more than 15 students at a time.

Coronavirus pandemic

Students in San Juan Province first to return to face-to-face classes

10-08-2020 01:25 Children and teenagers in the province will return to schools under a “bimodal” education system, “bubble” classrooms and with a sanitary kit for each student.

THE PERONIST PROFESSOR

President Fernández keeps up with UBA teaching commitments online

10-06-2020 17:00 President Alberto Fernández thanks his students for their patience and understanding, as he finds time among the pandemic to teach theory of crime and penal law class.