Noticias

USA: Letters to the Editor: Betsy DeVos is a product of Trump’s indifference to public education

Publicado: 30 agosto 2020

USA/August 30, 2020/Source: https://www.latimes.com/ To the editor: While your editorial delineates Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ callousness and indifference to the pandemic, it is your observation that President Trump is “not all that interested in education” that resonates most. As reprehensible as DeVos is, she is only doing the bidding of a man who doesn’t care about education and […]

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Togo: Un sindicato de la educación aboga por mejorar las condiciones laborales y de vida del personal docente del sector privado

Publicado: 30 agosto 2020

Togo/30 de agosto 2020/Por: Education International  La Fédération des syndicats de l’Éducation nationale (FESEN) ha instado a los ministros de Educación a abordar el problema de la precariedad del personal docente del sector privado para “poner fin a su suplicio”. El secretario general de la Fédération des syndicats de l’Éducation nationale (FESEN), Sénon Hounsime, se ha dirigido […]

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Canadá: Glitches a virtual certainty as Ontario classes resume, but lessons to be learned

Publicado: 30 agosto 2020

Canadá/ August 29, 2020 /By Michelle McQuigge/source: https://globalnews.ca The technical glitches and occasional outages that will almost certainly be part of this year’s virtual school experience in Ontario may also prove to be teachable moments for educators and students alike, according to various experts in the field. School boards, teachers and researchers say recent failures of key online […]

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India- Bengal: ‘71% kids have no access to digital education, child labour doubles’

Publicado: 30 agosto 2020

India/August 30, 2020/by Sweety Kumari/Source: https://indianexpress.com/  “At least Bengal’s data is better than the national data. Across India, only 14 per cent of the school children have been able to continue their education,” said Prabir Basu, Joint Convener of RTE Forum (Campaign). Around 71 per cent of school children in West Bengal didn’t have access to […]

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USA: Lack of COVID-19 testing at Colorado’s rural universities epitomizes higher education inequities

Publicado: 30 agosto 2020

USA/August 30, 2020/By ELIZABETH HERNANDEZ/Source: https://www.denverpost.com/ State higher ed officials working to bring testing to Adams State University in Alamosa Adams State University President Cheryl Lovell is imploring the state — or anyone who will listen — to help connect the rural school with the COVID-19 testing it’s currently unable to afford or access, even as […]

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Aldeia do Alto Xingu improvisa hospital, contrata médica e tem mortalidade zero por Covid-19

Publicado: 29 agosto 2020

Brasil/ 29 de agosto 2020/ Por: Carolina Dantas, G1/Fonte: https://g1.globo.com/ Médica de saúde da família pediu demissão de hospital em São Paulo para ser contratada pela Associação Índigena Kuikuro do Alto Xingu. Covid atingiu dezenas de índios da comunidade, cacique e até anciã de 90 anos. Todos sobreviveram. Imagem interna de leitos improvisados por povo […]

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