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Chile Police Department Represses First Year Student Demonstration
Over a thousand students from different houses Chilean secondary study and social organizations were preparing to march peacefully on Thursday, were repressed with tear gas and water cannon by police to break up the demonstration.
Young people began to focus on the Plaza Italia, located in the south of Santiago, the Chilean capital from 10:00 am (1300 GMT). Telesur correspondent in Chile, Beatriz Michell, reported earlier that the metropolitan authorities did not authorize the first mobilization of the year.
“The mobilization, did not get permission from the Metropolitan Municipality, was convened by the Coordinator of Secondary School Students Against the unfulfilled promises of President Sebastián Piñera” to offer a non-profit public education and quality, said Michell. According to the journalist, the students wanted to start the year “in protest to demand that the request had last year and generated strong protests that occurred in this country throughout 2011.”
Among other things, the march to demand the government serve all students who have been expelled from their schools to participate in the student movement, “return to their schools, their schools and can continue studying.” On the streets of the Plaza Italia and Bustamante Park, site of the protests Chilean transit police vehicles to guard public safety. However, the student movement has been gathering separately to stand firm in their demands.
Press The FEUU About The Situation Of The UTAA
Given the facts of notoriety the Federation of University Students of Uruguay (FEUU) on the day of the date met with colleagues from the Union of Sugar Workers of Artigas (UTAA) to express solidarity with the struggle that they are doing.
They are in a precarious situation, since they do not have land to work, seeing the need to sell their labor to large sugarcane producers, they do work under a regime of seasonal, for a period not exceeding 5 months, working hours are spread over 12 hours in poor working conditions (without the right equipment and even without drinking water in some cases) with incomes barely enough to survive during the harvest, and are forced the rest of the year to have to move to the capital or other cities in search of temporary jobs that allow them to survive them and their families.
Given this reality the Land Commission has nucleated in a productive project UTAA the National Colonization Institute (INC) with the aim that this will provide the land needed to find there settlement, labor and means of subsistence.
This project includes more than 90 families, had a process of more than 7 months, with support from the UdelaR, which is conducted a survey of lands that are unproductive in the hands of large landowners and land belonging to INC, is estimated on the same machinery necessary for the productive development of these. Continue reading
President Santos Announced Audit in All Ministries Of Education in The Country
The objective is to verify the budget per student enrolled, to eradicate the so-called ‘ghost children’, found enrolled on paper but in reality do not exist. Thanks to the audit conducted last year only 15 of these ministries, were saved 133 billion pesos to find 97 000 enrollments of less nonexistent.
Bogota, March 14 (GIS). The President Juan Manuel Santos said Wednesday an audit of budgetary resources to handle the 95 ministries of education in the country, to be certified paras prevent fraud. “See what you can do when you have will and resources are available to monitor public finances,” said the president during the Workshop ‘Towards construction of a comprehensive policy against corruption’, which met in Bogota, explaining that such audits were born in 2010 in a pilot scheme covering six of these ministries.
“With these six cases audited were discovered 34,000 ‘ghost children’. Thirty-four thousand ‘ghost children’ means that the country has saved 36 billion dollars on behalf of those resources that were left to turn to finance tuition nonexistent” he said. He explained that seeing these results, the pilot was extended last year to other regions where irregularities were also discovered. Continue reading
Education Act “Amputates” AF Leadership Education Agencies
In the FA are different views on the educational problem, regarding the political, possible solutions and budget. For Uruguay Assembly, with the current Education Act, the FA “was amputated” leadership.
Assembly deputy José Carlos Mahía Uruguay, member of the Committee on Education and Culture of the House, said that “there must be a stronger political leadership” in education, but that with the current power structure, “the FA was amputated the possibility of exercising their own public policies in education. “
To Mahía this happens, first, because the FA voted in education law “a composite of three political delegates and two teachers,” and also by “the opposition have given one of three places in the politicians. ” The legislator said that this forms “a strange and exceptional case, because the policies contained in the Broad Front program on energy, environment, safety and economy, without restrictions apply. But in education, the FA has to apply what to agree with the National Party or the teaching orders, not by a casual agreement, but because he has no choice. “
Moreover, the member of the Education Commission of the Movement of Popular Participation (MPP), Gabriela Dobal, said that since this sector are “welcome” that representatives of the faculty in the governance of education. “From then until we can agree or not is another matter, but we appreciate the fact that teachers can participate by voting on the boards of education,” he said. Continue reading
Mineducation Continues Its Effort to Have Teachers in The Public Sector to Access New Or Used
Learn the methods by which credit could access new or used, as well as interest rates if official sector teachers.
Learn the methods by which credit could access new or used, as well as interest rates if official sector teachers. The Ministry of Education handles an administrative act that facilitates the transfer of layoffs Social Benefits Fund of the Magisterium in the National Savings Fund (FNA), without affecting the special administration of their layoffs. The efforts of the Ministry to facilitate the acquisition of housing for teachers in the public sector are part of the educational welfare policy drawn from 2008 and are articulated with the consultation process with Fecode signed in June 2011.
Bogota, March 14, 2011. MEN. The Ministry of Education continues its efforts to provide facilities to teachers in the public sector to be homeowners and have access to loans for purchase through the National Savings Fund (FNA).
In this sense, were designed two types of links that are accessible to teachers. The first is through Voluntary Savings Contract (AVC), a case in which the FNA for a minimum of twelve months from membership, and manages these accounts open without charge or handling fee for withdrawal. With this approach, are generated quarterly returns credited to the account during this period to acquire the ability to access housing loans and education. Continue reading