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Docentes se mantienen en pie de lucha en toda Colombia

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Colombia/13 de junio de 2017/Fuente: http://www.telesurtv.net

El sindicato de los profesores en Colombia (Fecode) tiene previsto una nueva semana de protestas, que iniciaron este lunes con una jornada de cacerolazos en todo el país.

La Federación Colombiana de Trabajadores de la Educación (Fecode) de Colombia convocó este lunes a todos los docentes, estudiantes y padres de familia a marchar en una movilización en las calles de ciudades, municipios y principales capitales para mostrar con un cacerolazo su inconformidad ante la falta de soluciones por parte del Estado.

Los maestros se movilizaron nuevamente como parte de una huelga que comenzó el 11 de mayo. Reclaman mejores condiciones para el sector, como los aumentos salariales, a lo que el gobierno de Juan Manuel Santos ya respondió que no tiene recursos para ofrecer más a los profesores.

Este lunes se presentaron bloqueos en el norte de Bogotá, sobre la Carrera 30, la troncal de las Américas e incluso en inmediaciones del municipio de Soacha.

El sindicato de los profesores ratificó que continuarán las manifestaciones en todas las regiones del país debido al paro profesoral. Para el 13 de junio está convocada una marcha de las antorchas.

 

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 Barranquilla, la vía Acacias en el departamento del Meta, Castilla La Nueva (Meta), Santa Marta y todo el departamento del Tolima son algunos de los lugares que se movilizaron a la par con Bogotá y manifestaron que seguirán reuniéndose en las principales vías para bloquearlas y llamar la atención gubernamental.

Además, la directiva de Fecode programó reuniones permanentes con la comunidad educativa (padres de familia y estudiantes) y buscan organizar un plebiscito en el seno de la comunidad, en respaldo a la educación pública administrada por el Estado.

El cese de actividades que ya tiene más de un mes, tiene sin clases a 8,5 millones de niños, los docentes no logran avanzar lo suficiente en cuanto al pliego de peticiones que contiene 30 puntos sobre varios temas de política educativa.

«No es solo un tema salarial, nosotros estamos exigiendo alimentación, transporte e infraestructura para los niños. Luchamos por la calidad de la educación en Colombia», dijo a medios locales el presidente de Fecode, Carlos Rivas.

Rechazo ante la represión

La organización rechazó, a través de comunicado de prensa y en redes sociales, la agresión del Escuadrón Móvil Antidisturbios (Esmad) y la fuerza Pública contra los maestros que asistieron a la movilización en Bogotá.

El alcalde de la ciudad Enrique Peñalosa ofreció «disculpas» por la intervención del Esmad, pese a que advirtió que no permitirá «que se bloqueen las líneas de transporte masivo».

Promesas incumplidas por parte del Gobierno colombiano

El ministro de Hacienda, Mauricio Cardenas, reiteró que la nivelación salarial se cumplió, como parte de los acuerdos de 2015 entre docentes y Gobierno pero los maestros señalan que este hecho no es cierto y que ni siquiera durante este año se les ha hecho el aumento legal de todos los trabajadores en Colombia fijado en el 7 por ciento.

«En términos de infraestructura, de recursos, de capacitación de docentes, las inversiones siguen siendo muy precarias en el país y eso lo puede ver fácilmente cualquier ciudadano, estamos aquí tratando de comunicarle a toda la comunidad estas problemáticas», dijo el docente afiliado a la Asociación de Institutores de Antioquia.

El docente agregó que el ministro de Hacienda y el presidente Juan Manuel Santos expresaron que no hay presupuesto para cumplir los compromisos contractuales y hasta la fecha ningún docente del país recibió un aumento en el salario y continúa con el sueldo del año 2016.

Fuente de la Noticia:

http://www.telesurtv.net/news/Docentes-colombianos-convocan-a-cacerolazo-en-el-pais-20170612-0013.html

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México: Lanza el FCE nueva revista académica: ‘Reformas y Políticas Educativas’

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México/13 de junio de 2017/Fuente: http://aristeguinoticias.com

La dirige Miguel Limón Rojas, presidente de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas y ex secretario de Educación.

El Fondo de Cultura Económica anunció hoy el lanzamiento de una nueva revista académica, Reformas y Políticas Educativas, bajo la dirección del ex secretario de Educación Pública y actual presidente de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas, Miguel Limón Rojas.

El director del Fondo, José Carreño Carlón, dio a conocer lo anterior en la sede de la casa editorial durante la ceremonia de instalación del Comité Editorial de la revista, integrado por especialistas de las instituciones de educación superior de México y de las principales universidades del mundo.

Entre los especialistas mexicanos, asistieron como miembros del nuevo Comité Editorial: Manuel Gil Antón, de El Colegio de México; Blanca Heredia y David Arellano, del CIDE; Alba Martínez Olivé, ex subsecretaria de Educación Pública de México y hoy consultora independiente; Carlos Ornelas, de la UAM; Juan Fidel Zorrilla, de la UNAM Gloria del Castillo, de FLACSO; Sylvia Ortega, del Colegio de Bachilleres; Edgar Ramírez, del CIDE, y Pedro Flores Crespo, de la Universidad Iberoamericana.

Y entre los expertos internacionales, figuran como participantes en el Comité, Richard Murnane y Fernando Reimers, de la Universidad de Harvard; Jürgen Schriewer, de la Universidad Humboldt de Berlín; Paul Kim y Martin Carnoy, de la Universidad de Stanford; Mark Bray, de la Universidad de Hong Kong, Cristian Bellei, de la Universidad de Chile; Ernesto Treviño, de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y Harry Patrinos, del Banco Mundial.

“Con esta publicación aspiramos a incrementar los espacios de difusión para la investigación rigurosa y relevante de las políticas educativas, y a promover un diálogo informado entre la comunidad académica nacional e internacional, los tomadores de decisiones —y de allí la importancia de que nos acompañe en este acto el subsecretario de Educación— y los actores interesados de las comunidades escolares”, expuso Carreño Carlón.

En su oportunidad, Miguel Limón Rojas —quien fuera Secretario de Educación Pública entre 1995 y 2000—habló de que esta revista es el inicio de una nueva tradición dentro de la trayectoria que ha representado el FCE para nuestro país en el quehacer editorial al dar un lugar especial y merecido a la educación.

“Pensamos que en esta época cada vez será más difícil que la escuela funcione a puerta cerrada, por eso deseamos que la investigación pueda acceder a lo que sucede en el salón de clases, de manera respetuosa y propositiva, para que el maestro se sienta acompañado en la labor que realiza por personas valiosas, conocedoras, que comparten con él la preocupación de encontrar mejores prácticas”.

Por su parte, el especialista Sergio Cárdenas habló de que esta revista llenará un vacío en el ámbito de las publicaciones con temas sobre políticas educativas, y adelantó algunos de los criterios editoriales con que se conducirá, así como parte de su estructura editorial.

En ese sentido, mencionó que los artículos que se incluirán en la publicación serán resultado de investigaciones científicas, pero también trabajos empíricos, artículos teóricos y reseñas críticas de libros, todos con amplios estándares de calidad, originalidad y pertinencia aplicables a revistas científicas interdisciplinarias.

La revista, explicó, tendrá secciones como un editorial escrito por el director o el coordinador del número en cuestión; una sección titulada “Pensamiento educativo” en la que se incluirán aportaciones teóricas o conceptuales relevantes para el debate entre investigadores y tomadores de decisiones; la sección “Prácticas y casos”, con artículos que aporten reflexiones acerca de experiencias o casos relevantes para los tomadores de decisiones de la región; otra más que se titulará “Evidencias”, en la que habrá artículos académicos con implicaciones relevantes para la definición de políticas educativas; y una sección con reseñas de libros sobre educación.

Fuente de la Noticia:

http://aristeguinoticias.com/3005/lomasdestacado/lanza-el-fce-nueva-revista-academica-reformas-y-politicas-educativas/

 

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United Kingdom: Who is Justine Greening and what has she done as Education Secretary?

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United Kingdom/june 13, 2017/By: Rachael Pells/Source :http://www.independent.co.uk

Industry leaders speak favourably of the education minister, who has been re-appointed despite perceived differences in opinion to the Prime Minister.

Justine Greening has been re-appointed as Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities, following another cabinet reshuffle.

Despite winning back her Putney constituency seat with a much reduced majority vote of 1,554 down from 10,180, education industry leaders appear to be singing Ms Greening’s praises as a sensible choice for education.

In the run up to the general election, some had speculated that Ms Greening – herself known to be unenthusiastic about grammar schools – might be replaced by someone whose views were more in line with the Prime Minister’s.

The fact she has kept her role, however, has  been viewed by many as a further sign that Theresa May’s much-loved grammar school expansion plans could be dead and buried.

Who is Justine Greening?

The daughter of steel workers from Rotherham, Ms Greening was educated at a state comprehensive school.

She became MP for Putney, Roehampton and Southfields in 2005, when she regained a traditionally Tory seat from a Labour stronghold, and was appointed shadow Treasury minister.

The former prime minister David Cameron moved her to become Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government in 2009.

She entered the Cabinet in 2011 after being appointed as Secretary of State for Transport before being reshuffled to Secretary of State for International Development until last year.

Before taking over as Education Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities from Nicky Morgan, Ms Greening made a public announcement that she was in a same-sex relationship – making her one of very few openly LGBT members in the Cabinet.

Tweeting just two days after the EU referendum vote, she said: «Today’s a good day to say I’m in a happy same sex relationship, I campaigned for Stronger In but sometimes you’re better off out».

What has she achieved in her first year as Education Secretary?

Following her appointment in July 2016, Ms Greening moved quickly to scrap a number of policies, including forced SATs re-sits for 11 year-olds and the controversial plan to force all schools in under-performing areas to become part of an academy chain.

While she initially followed suit in praising Ms May’s grammar school plans, later interviews with the Secretary of State revealed her personal difference in opinion.

Ms Greening was praised for seeing compulsory sex and relationships education pushed through for all schools, and is also known to have a good relationship with teaching unions – despite being heckled over the grammar schools pledge at the Association of School and College Leaders conference in March.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders’ union NAHT, said he welcomed her reappointment.

“In the last few months she has shown a willingness to engage with the profession on important issues, such as primary assessment and PSHE, paving the way for crucial changes in policy,” he said.

“NAHT has worked well with the minister on the current consultation on primary assessment, and we look forward to continuing that to drive through the positive changes this contains.

“The biggest challenge for the minister will be school funding and she will need to argue vigorously for the needs of schools with her cabinet colleagues,” he added.

What can we expect from her now?

Since the Tories lost their majority in the election vote, it remains unclear which education policies will be put forward – if any – in the coming weeks and months.

Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday Politics programme, Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs and a prominent supporter of grammar schools, said the party would have to “trim down our policies carefully to what we think Parliament will support”.

Another source close to Downing Street was reported to have admitted the controversial grammar schools plans were “dead” thanks to Ms May’s lost majority.

Others have speculated that the department will have no choice but to reassess school spending, following increasing pressure from school leaders and a series of budgeting blunders.

Teaching unions on Friday warned that if the Government decides to press ahead with cuts to school spending – calculated at a real-terms loss of 7 per cent per pupil – campaign efforts would “intensify” – hinting that strike action could be on the horizon.

Source:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/who-is-justine-greening-education-secretary-tory-conservative-election-2017-cabinet-theresa-may-a7786296.html

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Ghana: Girls’ Education Network Launched

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Ghana/13 june 2017/By: PRESS RELEASE/Source: http://allafrica.com

The renowned Ghanaian educationist, Dr. KwegyirAggrey once famously said «if you educate a male you educate an individual but if you educate a female you educate a nation.» This quote demonstrates the importance and the benefits to the society of female or girl-child education.

To give meaning to the above quote and to ensure that issues around female education are given priority attention, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) through Camfed Ghana provided funding for the establishment of a Girls’ Education Network (GEN) which was on May 29, 2017 launched in Koforidua.

Seen as a step towards supporting the Girls’ Education Unit (GEU) to achieve its mandate, the GEU, together with key stakeholders in girls’ education in Ghana, took the initiative to establish the GEN and an Advisory Body. The GEN will be anchored on the Gender in Education Policy (GEP) and is a network of government departments and agencies, civil society organizations, donor partners, education coalitions and other practitioners interested in promoting quality education for girls in Ghana.

The philosophy underpinning the establishment of the GEN is premised on the fact that education, particularly girls’ education, is a fundamental human right and key to breaking the cycle of poverty. It is envisaged that the GEN platform will enable the systematic coordination and monitoring of all current and future efforts for girls’ education in Ghana in order to ensure that they align with the national vision for girls’ education, as well as with the needs of all Ghanaian girls.

The work of the GEN is also intended to contribute towards the achievement of SDGs 4 and 5 and the actualisation of the GEP which aims to promote inclusive and quality education, and to achieve gender equality and empowerment for all girls.The Advisory Body of the GEN will, in an advisory capacity, provide strategic support and push ahead the functioning of the GEN agenda and help the GEU to achieve its mandate.

The Director of Basic Education and Acting Deputy Director-General of GES, Mrs. Cynthia Bosumtwi-Sam, who was the Guest of Honour at the event, expressed gratitude to the participants for their role in supporting girls’ education and urged them to continue to work hard. Mrs. Bosumtwi-Sam affirmed the need for organisations in girls’ education to get registered to allow for effective monitoring and evaluation of their activities in the country.

She charged the participants to propose practical policies and programmes on girls’ education as they strengthen their network with education authorities as to how their policy proposals could be adopted and implemented. She launched the GEN and tasked the members to follow due processes and procedures in all of their consultations and deliberations with the GEU and other stakeholders.

Source:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201706121215.html

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Mediterranean Film and Human Rights Association to Spotlight Right to Education at National Library

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Mediterranean/june 13, 2017/By Amira El Masaiti/Source: https://www.moroccoworldnews.com

The Association of Mediterranean Film and Human Rights Meetings (ARMCDH) will organize the sixth annual “All Nighter Cinema Human Rights” on June 16 and 17 at the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco (BNRM), under theme of the “right to education.”

After having underlined the Arab Spring in 2012, Women’s Rights in 2013, Justice in 2014, Migration in 2015 and Children’s Rights in 2016, the Right to Education has been chosen by the ARMCDH for this year’s edition as a pertinent topic for any discussion of human rights.

The right to education is one the fundamental principles of the International Declaration of Human Rights (DIDH), and the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (CIDE), particularly in the light of a troubled world and current national affairs.

The event aims to approach the issue from a cinematographic perspective through a series of screenings in which the films focus on various issues related to education and teaching, followed by a panel discussion of experts, actors, education institutions and associations.

The event will open with an open-air screening evening, free to the public from 7 pmuntil sunrise.

The third edition of the F’tour Cinéma will run parallel to the screenings, allowing cinema enthusiasts to get their Iftar meal in front of the screen, which will feature fiction films, documentaries, short films and feature films, representing six countries; namely, Italy, Germany, Spain, Morocco, Egypt and Algeria.

Movies to be featured during the event are:

“2020” by Mohamed Said Zerbouh (Morocco)

“The Maestras of the Republic” by Pilar Perez Solano (Spain)

“Excuse My French” by Omar Salama (Egypt)

“China Is Still Far” by Malek Bensmail (Algeria)

“Salvatore-Questa” by Gian Paolo Cugno (Italy)

“The Wave” by Dennis Gansel (Germany)

On Saturday June 17 at 10 pm, the auditorium of the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco (BNRM) will host a debate on the right to education. The event’s initiators have invited the public to attend to interact with the panel discussion during the debate.

Speakers invited to participate are:

Amina Lamrini Ouahabi, President of the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA), Doctor of Educational Sciences and specialist in educational models for human rights education.

Nadia Bernoussi, member of the Higher Council for Education, Training and Scientific Research (EESC), professor of constitutional law and vice-president of the International Academy of Constitutional Law.

Fouad Chafiki, Director of the Curricula and Central Director in charge of pedagogical research at the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research.

Phinith Chanthalangsy, Philosopher, Program Specialist for the Social and Human Sciences at the UNESCO Regional Office – Maghreb.

The debate will be moderated by Abdellah Tourabi, a political scientist, journalist and moderator of the 2M press conferences.

Source:

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/06/219550/mediterranean-film-human-rights-association-spotlight-right-education-national-library/

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EEUU: Trump’s education cuts aren’t ‘devastating,’ they’re smart

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EEUU/13 june 2017/By:Williamson M. Evers and Vicki E. Alger/Source:http://www.latimes.com

It’s the end of the world as we know it – at least that’s what some people would have us believe about President Trump’s education budget.

It’s “a devastating blow to the country’s public education system,” according to National School Boards Assn. CEO Thomas Gentzel. More like a “wrecking ball,” says Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Assn. teachers’ union. No, it’s a veritable “assault on the American Dream,” insists John B. King Jr., former Obama administration secretary of education.

Such hyperbole is reminiscent of the early 1980s, when President Reagan’s opponents battled his administration’s education cuts, and it’s about as inaccurate today as it was back then.

Trump wants to reduce the U.S. Department of Education’s discretionary budget by $9.2 billion, from $68.3 billion to $59.1 billion. Close to two-thirds of that reduction (63%) comes from eliminating programs that are duplicative or just don’t work.

The administration is proposing a 10% cut in TRIO programs and a cut of almost a third in GEAR UP programs. GEAR UP and TRIO (which despite the name consists of nine programs) are supposed to help at-risk students who hope to go to college, but who might not make it.

At the behest of the Education Department, the Mathematica Policy Research Group studied a TRIO program and found weaknesses, which it first reported in 2004. The final report found “no detectable effects” on college-related outcomes, including enrollment and completion of bachelor’s or associate’s degrees. In a striking acknowledgement that these programs don’t hold up under scrutiny, lobbyists for the programs got Congress to ban the Education Department from setting up control-group evaluations of TRIO and GEAR UP.

Another sign of dysfunction is that — despite a demonstrable lack of success — grants to run TRIO and GEAR UP programs almost always get renewed. For example, in California, 82% of those who had grants in 2006 to manage this “no detectable effects” TRIO program still had those grants a decade later.

The K-12 programs proposed for elimination in the Trump budget are similarly ineffective.

Dynarski worked at the U.S. Department of Education during the Clinton administration and directed the 21st Century Community Learning Centers’ national evaluation while he was a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. The three evaluations published between 2003 and 2005 concluded that the achievement of participating students was virtually the same, but their behavior was worse, compared with their peers who weren’t in the program.

Another program deservedly put on the chopping block is the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program. Enacted in 2001 as part of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act, this program gave poorly performing schools fistfuls of cash to turn themselves around and raise student achievement. Turned out the SIG program was more buck than bang — lots more.

Total SIG program funding under the Bush administration was less than $126 million. Regular annual appropriations skyrocketed during Obama’s presidency, starting at $526 million. They remained near or north of a half billion dollars throughout his administration, totaling more than $7 billion to date — including a one-time infusion of $3 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding.

The Obama administration publicly revealed the SIG program’s colossal failure on Jan. 18, 2017, just hours before President Obama’s appointees departed. According to the final evaluation by the American Institutes for Research and Mathematica Policy Research for the Education Department, SIG had “no significant impacts” on math achievement, reading achievement, high school graduation, or college enrollment across school and student subgroups.

Commenting on the evaluation, Andrew R. Smarick, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of education, called SIG “the greatest failure in the history of the U.S. Department of Education.” Seven billion dollars in taxpayer money was spent, and the results were the same, as Smarick put it, “as if this program had never existed.”

Cutting costly, ineffective government programs isn’t the end of the world. It’s part of “[our] moral duty… to make our government leaner and more accountable,” as Trump stated during a budget meeting in February. His budgetary effort to cut waste includes the Education Department for good reason.

Williamson M. Evers is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a former U.S. assistant secretary of education for planning, evaluation and policy development. Vicki E. Alger is a research fellow at the Independent Institute. Evers was the leader of and Alger a member of the Trump transition’s agency review for the U.S. Department of Education.

Source:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-evers-alger-trump-education-cuts-good-20170612-story.html

 

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Jóvenes sudafricanos reclaman severas medidas contra violadores

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Sudáfrica/12 junio 2017/Fuente: Prensa Latina

Jóvenes sudafricanos analizan hoy en Durban soluciones innovadoras frente a los desafíos del vih-sida, que identificaron con el acceso a las oportunidades económicas, la atención médica, el creciente número de muchachas infectadas y las dinámicas de género.

La Conferencia Juvenil de Educación Superior sobre el vih-sida, que termina hoy dos días de sesiones en esa ciudad sudafricana a orillas del océano Índico, debate asimismo la necesidad de imponer sentencias más severas, incluyendo la de pena de muerte, para aquellos que violan y asesinan mujeres.

Según estadísticas divulgadas en este encuentro en Sudáfrica más de dos mil jóvenes de 15 a 24 años son infectadas cada semana con el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana (vih).

Lerato Mortulane, presidenta de la campaña ‘Ella conquista’ que desarrolla el Departamento Nacional de Salud, participó en uno de los paneles de esta reunión que abordó el tema de los abusos y asesinatos de muchachas y exhortó a las jóvenes a romper el silencio en asuntos que las afectan.

Estamos cansados de ver diariamente la muerte de jóvenes en silencio porque temen avergonzar a otras personas. ‘Llegó el momento de que jóvenes mujeres nombren y avergüencen a otros. No moriremos en silencio’, añadió.

En la Conferencia, la primera dama sudafricana Thobeka Madiba-Zuma explicó nuevos programas de su fundación que bajo el título ‘Escuchen a las niñas’ tiene la intención de darle voz a las que sufren los abusos y son las más vulnerables dentro de la población.

La señora Madiba-Zuma expresó que la cifra de infectadas con el vih supera ya las dos mil 300 jóvenes por semana, un hecho que calificó de alarmante e inquietante.

Muchos de los participantes se quejaron de clínicas que se niegan a brindar contraceptivos, del poder patriarcal y de lo que denominaron ‘prácticas culturales arcaicas que dificultan el progreso’, mientras otros exhortaron a restaurar la pena de muerte para quienes violan y asesinan mujeres, y crear nuevas oportunidades para la juventud.

La reunión en Durban antecede la Octava Conferencia sobre el Sida que comienza esta semana.

Fuente noticia: http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?o=rn&id=92441&SEO=jovenes-sudafricanos-reclaman-severas-medidas-contra-violadores

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