Archive for the 'Education & Youth' CategoryRemembering “The Best Teacher in America,” Bolivian Jaime EscalanteSunday, March 27th, 2011 March 30th, 2011 marks the one year anniversary of Jaime Escalante’s death, yet many Bolivians and foreigners alike are unaware of the remarkable legacy left by this humble Aymara man who received admiring visits from the likes of US President Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not many people realize that one of the most famous [...] Read More..>>Government and Students Agree After ViolenceThursday, March 24th, 2011 After a day of student marches and clashes with police that left one officer severly burned and 12 students arrested, the Bolivian univerisity systems have won an accord with the government regarding health care. In Bolivia university students and faculty have their own free health care system (the SSU) that maintains is own hospitals and [...] Read More..>>2011 Bolivian International Poetry FestivalSunday, March 13th, 2011 From March 14th – 20th, the cities of La Paz, Oruro and Cochabamba will host the Bolivian International Poetry Festival for the second consecutive year. The special guests are 8 poets from… Read More..>>Health Ministry Reports Rising Occurrence of HIV/AIDS CasesThursday, December 2nd, 2010 According to a new report by the STI-HIV/AIDS program of the Health Ministry, new figures show over 600 new cases of HIV/AIDS in the country, 45 of those cases consisting of minors… Read More..>>New Education Law Proposes “Anti-Imperialist” School CurriculaWednesday, December 1st, 2010 Drafts of the Avelino Siñani-Elizardo Pérez Education Law, currently in development, obtained by La Prensa newspaper show the government’s plans to institutionalize “anti-imperialist and anti-patriarchal” curricula… Read More..>>Education Officials Warn About Loss of Indigenous LanguagesWednesday, September 15th, 2010 Bolivian education officials announced today their concern over the risk of extinction in several of the country´s indigenous languages and proposed that the issue be addressed in future education policies… Read More..>>Law Proposes Stronger Punishments for Sex Crimes Involving MinorsTuesday, September 7th, 2010 In the new Law Against Human Slavery and Trafficking, the possession, production, sale, or commercialization of pornography that contains images of minors will carry a penalty of up to 22 years of prison time… Read More..>>UNICEF Says 90% of Rural Children Live in Extreme PovertyFriday, August 27th, 2010 In a presentation on the State of the World´s Children Report, UNICEF representative Ludwig Guendel announced that 90% of rural children in Bolivia live in extreme poverty… Read More..>>Under-15 Futbol Team Wins Youth Olympics GoldThursday, August 26th, 2010 In a 5-0 victory over Haiti yesterday, Bolivia´s under-15 men´s national team took the gold medal in the Youth Olympic Games… Read More..>>Salary Increases Pit Teachers Against ParentsThursday, May 20th, 2010 After weeks of sporadic teacher strikes protesting what they say was an insufficient salary increase, parents of students in six macro-districts of La Paz… Read More..>> |