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Sudan: Mediation Between Darfur Students, University Unsuccessful

Sudán/31 de Julio de 2017/Allafrica

Resumen: Los comités de mediación del estado del Nilo Blanco y Jartum no han podido resolver los problemas que afectan a cientos de estudiantes Darfuri de la Universidad Bakht El Rida. Sus compañeros en Sennar y Kassala salieron a las calles para expresar su solidaridad.

El Duweim / Sennar / Kassala / Khartoum — Mediation committees from White Nile state and Khartoum have failed to solve the problems concerning hundreds of Darfuri students of the Bakht El Rida University. Their fellow students in Sennar and Kassala took to the streets to express their solidarity.

On Sunday, Darfuri students of the Bakht El Rida University who were still staying in El Duweim in White Nile state, began to return to Darfur after negotiations with the government failed. The authorities refused to meet the demands of the students, and readmit 14 expelled students and halt the prosecution of ten others accused of killing two policemen two months ago.

The problems began on 9 May, when the police of El Duweim violently broke up clashes between student members of Sudan’s ruling party and opposition students over a disputed guild election at the Bakht el Rida University. Two policemen were killed. Seventy Darfuri students were detained that day.

Investigations into the policemen’s deaths are still underway, Amnesty International said in a statement on Wednesday.

The Darfuris at the university protested the expulsion of 14 of their fellow students and the detention of the alleged killers in vain. This caused more than 1,000 students to collectively submit their resignation from the university last week because of «the security services and the university administration’s racial targeting of Darfuri students».

The students then decided to deliver their demands to the federal Ministry of Higher Education in Khartoum. After the authorities in El Duweim told bus owners not to admit them, more than 1,500 Darfuri students then began to walk to the Sudanese capital.

At Sheikh El Yagout village, south of Khartoum, agents of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), stopped the marching students. They told the villagers not to provide food and beverages to the stranded protesters and the students «to return to where they came from».

Mediation attempts

Kamal El Zein, member of the students’ Crisis Management Committee, told Radio Dabanga that «five rounds of mediations did not lead to any solution».

The Darfuri Students Committee along with other parties met with the Bakht El Rida University administration and the El Duweim Security Committee again on Sunday morning in a renewed attempt to bring the views of two parties together.

«The University administration however refused to comply with any proposal submitted by the students,» El Zein said.

«As a result, the remaining Darfuri students, feeling they have been subjected to fierce racism by the university’s administration, began to leave for their homes today.»

The student leader warned that «These intensely discriminatory actions will have consequences not only for the Bakht El Rida University and the government of White Nile state, but also for Sudan in general».

He again appealed to the University administration to reconsider its stances and readmit the dismissed students. «More then 1,200 Darfuri students are losing their future in this way.»

Eastern Sudan solidarity

On Sunday, hundreds of students of the University of Sennar took to the streets in the capital of Singa in a short protest march against the incidents in White Nile state.

«After a discussion organised by student associations about the violence committed against students in the Sudanese universities, we held a mass rally in Singa that lasted more than a quarter of an hour,» a student leader told Radio Dabanga.

«We marched through the streets expressing our rejection of all practices by Sudanese universities’ administrations against students, especially the arbitrary dismissal and arrest of Darfuri students of the Bakht El Rida University.»

He said that the police and security agents did not intervene. «We safely returned to the campus.»

Students of the University of Kassala as well held discussions and vigils inside and outside the university, in protest against the abuses of students in the Sudanese universities.

«Our discussion meeting on Sunday began around 10 am and continued until 3 pm,» a student reported to this station.

«The meeting dealt with the case of the Darfuri students at Bakht El Rida University, Asim Omar, student at the University of Khartoum who is accused of killing a policeman and will be brought to trial on July 26, and the students dismissed from the Red Sea University.»

Darfuri students at the Blue Nile University in Ed Damazin, as well condemned «the excessive violence carried out by pro-National Congress Party institutions against students in Sudan».

One of the students told Radio Dabanga on Sunday that «the excessive and systematic violence by university administrations and students loyal to the regime against Darfuri students is just downright racism.

«This is intentional,» he added. «If the Darfuri students revolt, Khartoum will accuse them of resorting to violence.»

Khartoum

In Khartoum, the opposition forces allied in the Sudan Call, a two-page document calling for regime-change and democracy, called for the re-admission of all expelled and resigned Darfuri students to the University of Bakht El Rida.

In a statement on Sunday, the Sudan Call called for the «immediate ending of all forms of targeting and discrimination of students based on their origin or political affiliation by university administrations, police and security forces».

The group urged «a transparent and fair investigation into the complaints about racial abuses directed against the Darfuri students by employees of the Bakht El Rida University administration».

The allied opposition further called for the immediate release of Sudanese Congress Party leaders Ibrahim El Sheikh and Bakri Yousif who were detained when they wanted to visit the students at Sheikh El Yagout.

On Thursday, members of the Sudanese parliament completed a signature campaign to summon the Minister of Higher Education concerning the violence carried out against the Darfuri students of Bakht El Rida University.

Discrimination

In January, Amnesty International issued a report in which it documented attacks on Darfuri university students going back three years.

Fuente: http://allafrica.com/stories/201707240649.html

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Universitarios ayudarán a estudiar a niños de primaria en Nicaragua

Centro América/Nicaragua/29 Julio 2017/Fuente: El nuevo diario 

Unos 2.000 universitarios ayudarán a estudiar a niños de educación primaria en Nicaragua, informó hoy el Ministerio de Educación (Mined).

Los universitarios, todos de las carreras de Ciencias de la Educación en universidades estatales, acudirán a las escuelas de 19 delegaciones departamentales (provinciales) del Mined en toda Nicaragua, con el objetivo de mejorar el aprendizaje de los niños, según las autoridades.

Niños de los grados primero, segundo y tercero de primaria, serán acompañados en sus estudios de lectura, escritura, matemáticas, innovación y emprendimiento.

El acompañamiento de los universitarios incluye talleres de pedagogía con los maestros y clases con mayor dinamismo, informó el Mined, a través de medios del Gobierno. Los universitarios son alumnos de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua (UNAN-Managua), de la UNAN-León, la Bluefields Indian and Carebbean University (BICU) y la Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaragüense (Uraccan).

El apoyo de los universitarios a los niños de primaria forma parte de la estrategia «Aprender, Emprender y Prosperar», resaltó el Mined.

Fuente: http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/435026-universitarios-ayudaran-estudiar-ninos-primaria-ni/

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Sudan: Resigned Students’ Demands Not Met, Lawyers Show Support

Sudán/24 de Julio de 2017/Allafrica

Resumen: Los policías siguen bloqueando a los cientos de estudiantes que ingresan a Jartum, ya que todavía están alojados en el pueblo de Sheikh El Yagout. Los intentos de llegar a un acuerdo con su universidad sobre la caída de cargos y la readmisión de los estudiantes.

Policemen continue to block the hundreds of students from entering Khartoum, as they are still hosted at the village of Sheikh El Yagout. Attempts to reach an agreement with their university on dropping charges and readmitting students.

The more than 1,500 Darfuri students of Bakht El Rida University in El Duweim are blockaded on the southern edge of the capital Khartoum after they were stopped by National Intelligence Security Service (NISS) agents from delivering a statement, listing their demands, to the government.

The students, who resigned en masse from the university, demand the release of 10 of their fellow students accused of killing two police officers and want 14 other students who were expelled from the university to be readmitted.

A student leader speaking to Radio Dabanga from Sheikh El Yagout village warned the government against resorting to violent solutions.»Our cause has nothing to do with politics.»

Representatives of the protesting students held a meeting with a committee of White Nile state, including members of the Bakht El Rida administration. Sheikh El Yagout, namesake of the village where the students are being hosted, mediated the meeting.

«We agreed on providing fair trial oppurtunities for the detained students, adjusting the academic status of the students who were unable to sit the exams and dropping the charges against them.»

«The government did not meet our fundamental demand of readmitting the dismissed students.»

The student said that the government committee did not approve their demand to readmit the dismissed students. «But this is a fundamental demand of ours.»

Civil society initiative representatives met with the student leaders yesterday, saying that the solutions proposed by the committee of White Nile are «acceptable in principle» which can be a framework to work forward on. El Sadig Adam Ismael, policy director of the initiative, asked the prosecution to refer the case against the students accused of killing two policemen, to court.

The Democratic Group of Lawyers condemned the security apparatus blocking the students’ way to the capital Khartoum: «A clear violation and depriving them from exercising their constitutional right to move within their country.»

The group said in a statement that it is ready to defend the hundreds of stranded students, against the crisis they deem was caused by Bakht El Rida University. «We follow the cases of the detained students, who have not been brought to trial for more than three months.»

Political issue

While students said to think otherwise, Mohamed Dia, member of the National Committee for the Defence of Darfuri students, finds the students’ issue «a highly political issue.

«We will deal with it politically, and expose it to the media. The sit-in shows a new form of civil disobedience, and a method that should receive support.»

Dia said that his committee opens the headquarters of opposition parties to shelter the stranded students, and stressed the need to form a national committee of lawyers to defend them.

One of the students’ representatives, Abbas El Khair recounted the background of the situation. «It goes back to the defeat of students allied to the ruling National Congress Party in the students’ union elections.» Unrest between student groups followed on 9 May, with two policemen being killed.

He explained that about 72 students were injured in the incidents witnessed by the university in the first day, as well as the arrest of others accused of the murders.

«Agents of the security forces then moved to evict students from the boarding houses and sent-awway about 1,200 male and female students.»

The tension caused students, mainly from Darfur, to resign en masse from the university and move to Khartoum to make their demands clear. «The security service prevented travel buses from transporting the students, however. After walking to Sheikh El Yagout, more than 15 kilometres away, they were denied access to Khartoum again.»

Fuente: http://allafrica.com/stories/201707210725.html
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China registra 37 millones de estudiantes universitarios en 2016

China/13 julio 2017/Fuente: Spanish People Daily

El Ministerio de Educación de China dijo hoy que el año pasado, el país registró 36.99 millones de estudiantes en 2.880 instituciones de educación superior.

Aunque la cifra fue apenas 1,4 por ciento más alta que en el 2015, representa un salto de cerca de 20 por ciento en relación con 2010 cuando había 31 millones de estudiantes matriculados.

La tasa de matriculación bruta en educación superior fue de 42,7 por ciento en 2016, en comparación con el 27 por ciento de 2010, pero menor que el objetivo de 50 por ciento establecido para 2019 en un informe del año pasado del Ministerio de Educación.

En general, más de siete millones de estudiantes universitarios obtuvieron el año pasado una licenciatura, cerca de 3,4 por ciento más que en 2015

Cerca de 563.900 estudiantes obtuvieron maestrías o doctorados, un aumento de 2,2 por ciento.

Fuente noticia: http://spanish.peopledaily.com.cn/n3/2017/0712/c31621-9240453.html

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Estados Unidos: Protestas contra Trump y Ortega en universidad de Miami.

Protestan política de inmigración en conferencia centroamericana en Miami.

América del Norte/Estados Unidos/20.06.2017/Autor y Fuente: http://www.trincheraonline.com

Un grupo de manifestantes protestaron el jueves la política de inmigración de Estados Unidos frente a la sede donde se realizó la Conferencia de Prosperidad y Seguridad en América Central.

Mientras que otros cinco manifestantes protestaron ante la presencia del canciller de Nicaragua en la conferencia. Se identificaron como nicaragüenses-americanos en contra del gobierno de Daniel Ortega, y ondearon banderas de Nicaragua, además de distribuir volantes con información sobre presuntas acciones negativas del gobernante de ese país centroamericano.

En frente del Graham Center en el campus de Florida International University (FIU), al menos 60 personas con pancartas se reunieron para mostrar su rechazo a las políticas del gobierno del presidente Donald Trump.

“El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!” “Los inmigrantes son bienvenidos aquí, no hay odio, no hay miedo!”, gritaron los manifestantes.

¡En una pancarta se leía “Que dejen a América Central en paz, Trump y (Mike) Pence solo quieren robarse sus recursos!”. Una bandera enorme tenía como lema “El peor presidente, ¡apoyado por un GOP cómplice!”

Los invitados a la conferencia incluyeron al vicepresidente Mike Pence, el secretario de Estado Rex Tillerson, y los presidentes El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras, entre otros funcionarios de América Central.

Participaron también en la manifestación representantes de organizaciones como Socialistas Democráticos de América del Sur de Florida y Mujeres Haitianas de Miami (FANM).

El evento “Protesta la visita de Mike Pence a FIU y el gobierno de Trump” fue convocado mediante Facebook por la Junta Política Progresiva de Miami-Dade, los Estudiantes por una Sociedad Democrática (SDS) de FIU, y la Coalición de Inmigrantes de Florida.

Un joven estaba frente a los manifestantes con una gran pancarta con el lema “Yo apoyo a Donald Trump” en inglés.

En un momento, los manifestantes se quedaron callados para escuchar una representante de la FANM mientras daba una charla contra el gobierno de Trump. “Le tenemos que decir ‘no’ al racismo, al homofobia, y ‘si’ a la inclusión,” dijo la mujer.

“Los inmigrantes son parte del tejido de esta gran nación; Sr. Pence, tienes que hablar el tema de los inmigrantes. Ellos necesitan que su estatus de protección temporal sea renovado! Ellos son el motor de la economía de los EEUU!”

Un estudiante de FIU tomó la palabra frente al grupo, diciendo que “FIU tiene estudiantes de la comunidad LGBTQ, estudiantes musulmanes, estudiantes que son inmigrantes sin documentación. ¿Qué hacemos nosotros cuando invitan a Mike Pence a nuestro campus? Nos unimos en resistencia!”

“Le demandamos a la administración de FIU una declaración pública sobre el futuro de los estudiantes que son inmigrantes. Nosotros no podemos dejar que nuestra educación se ponga en espera, le demandamos transparencia a nuestra administración”, agregó.

La protesta se hizo más fuerte y ruidosa a la llegada de Pence, que fue marcada por el sonido de los motores de la caravana de automóviles que acompañó al vicepresidente mientras llegaba al Graham Center.

Los manifestantes se acercaron los más posible a la reja que marcaba los alrededores del edificio, y otra vez se pusieron a vociferar, “Love trumps hate!”, aunque nunca se supo cuándo y por dónde entró Pence. Policía de Miami-Dade y el personal del servicio secreto rodeaban las instalaciones.

Fuente: http://www.trincheraonline.com/2017/06/16/protestas-contra-trump-y-ortega-en-universidad-de-miami/

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Tanzania: Don’t Go for Studies Abroad Blindly – Tcu

Tanzania/05 de Junio de 2017/Allafrica

Reseña: La comisión ha instado a los estudiantes que aspiran a estudiar en el extranjero a visitar las oficinas de TCU para la consulta antes de aplicar y así obtener asesoramiento sobre la calidad de la universidad requerida por los cursos que quieren seguir.

The commission has urged students aspiring to study abroad to visit TCU offices for consultation before applying to get advice on the university quality required as per the courses they want to pursue.

TCU Admission Officer Fabian Mahundu made the remarks in Dar es Salaam over the weekend during the opening of exhibition for Indian High Commission organized for Indian Higher Education Institutions.

The two-day event that ended yesterday was held at the Indian High Commission and involved about 20 representatives of Indian universities, the Global Education Link Agency and various Tanzanian students who completed their advanced level of education, recently.

«The extant system of grading in Tanzania must be duly adhered to by Indian and other foreign universities for the certificates of students who complete their studies to be recognised in the country,» said Dr Mahundu.

 Eight Tanzanian students were awarded scholarships by the government of India to pursue higher studies in the Asian country and they will pursue various courses, including engineering, statistics, business administration, mathematics, computer science and economics.
Indian High Commissioner to Tanzania Sandeep Arya stated that the government of India through its Indian Council for Cultural Centre gives 25 scholarships yearly to Tanzanian students to pursue undergraduate and post-graduate studies in India.

«Joint collaborations between higher learning institutions in Tanzania and India have increased in recent years. Jawaharlal Nehru University of India and University of Dar es Salaam have recently signed an agreement,» he said.

 He mentioned other Tanzanian institutions which closely work together with Indian institutions as the Institute of Financial Management, Mzumbe University and Eastern Africa Statistical Training Centre.

Global Education Link Agency Managing Director Abdulmalik Mollel advised students who get scholarship opportunities to study in India to perform well in their studies to convince the sponsor to extend the scholarship to more needy students.

«The cost of education in Indian universities is affordable for Tanzanian students, we can use India to increase our experts in various sectors of technology and health to create the nation of adequate specialists,» he said.

Fuente: http://allafrica.com/stories/201705290250.html

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Estados Unidos: Immigrant student’s arrest scuttles Connecticut legislation

Hartford, Conn. / 31 de mayo de 2017 / Por: PAT EATON-ROBB / Fuente: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/

A student originally from Mexico, Eric Cruz Lopez was among the most visible immigration activists on the University of Connecticut campus – up until he was charged with spray-painting expletives about President Donald Trump on the walls of school buildings.

Now his arrest is hurting the push for a bill that would allow students without legal immigration status at the state’s public colleges and universities access to financial aid.

Cruz, who had testified himself in favor of the legislation, was charged on May 7 with more than 100 counts of misdemeanor vandalism. Police said he gave a statement admitting to the vandalism and offering to discuss restitution. He did not respond to requests for comment.

The case led state House leaders to postpone a planned vote last week on legislation that would open up $165 million in institutional financial aid to students without legal status at public colleges and universities. Those students are studying under an Obama-era executive order known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which grants them special visas.

State Sen. Beth Bye, a West Hartford Democrat and co-chair of the legislature’s Higher Education Committee, said she’s still hopeful lawmakers will look past the arrest and to the bigger picture.

«It’s frustrating to see this one person’s action, in a moment in time, hurt the hopes and dreams of hundreds of Connecticut college students, putting their hopes and dreams out of reach,» she said. «His actions are not indicative at all of who these students are.»

Connecticut Students for a Dream, for which Cruz worked as an organizer, wrote to lawmakers distancing themselves from his actions.

The group plans a rally at the state Capitol on Wednesday to make another push for the legislation.

«For four years, we have marched, rallied, and organized for these proposals,» said Camila Bortolleto, a spokeswoman for the group. «We’ve won support from all of Connecticut’s higher education institutions, dozens of community groups, labor unions, and legislators in both parties. … It’s resoundingly clear: Our state supports these proposals.»

But some conservatives, including commentator Ann Coulter, have latched on to Cruz Lopez’s arrest as an example of why they say the students don’t deserve support.

Cruz led a protest march on campus in November following the presidential election and appeared before the Board of Trustees in December to demand the school codify protections for the students after Trump said he planned to reverse the previous administration’s executive order.

Cruz also has been to the Capitol several times to support the financial aid legislation. The students are currently not allowed to receive government aid, even though the money comes from a pool generated by tuition payments, to which they contribute.

Cruz, who came to the United States when he was 7 and lives in Bridgeport, testified the students simply want to be allowed to compete on a level playing field. He said he took the spring semester off because he needed to earn money to continue his studies.

«I have been worried about paying for college since I was 10, knowing that because we had to go to a food pantry to get food, paying for my education was going to be hard,» he said.

The University of Connecticut and the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities system both support the legislation, which has passed the Senate in each of the last two years. It was supposed to start this year in the House and may die without a vote in the lower chamber.

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Fuente noticia: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/35545858/immigrant-students-arrest-scuttles-connecticut-legislation

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