Colombia Expands Free Higher Education: What You Need to Know

Colombia Expands Free Higher Education: What You Need to Know

With the issuance of Decree 2271 of 2023, the National Government expanded free public higher education in Colombia, a policy that will cover technical, technological and professional programs. This is not, however, the first measure to guarantee access to this level of education for free. Since the government of former President Iván Duque, the zero … Read more

Online Alert: A Strategy to Prevent Cybercrimes Affecting Young People in Bogotá

Online Alert: A Strategy to Prevent Cybercrimes Affecting Young People in Bogotá

-With this strategy, which involves students, teachers and parents, the Ministry of Security and the mobile phone company WOM Colombia and the Police, with the support of the Ministry of Education, reinforce the prevention of cybercrimes such as ‘Grooming ‘, ‘Sexting’ and cyberbullying. -‘Online Alert’ is supported by the Roundtable of Experts Against Cybercrime, led … Read more

Front in Defense of Public Education Mobilizes for Free Textbooks and the Right to Education

Front in Defense of Public Education Mobilizes for Free Textbooks and the Right to Education

The Front in Defense of Public Education calls for this Friday a mobilization in defense of Free Textbooks, after they consider that they are violating the right to education of children and adolescents. This Friday, September 8 at 10:00 a.m., they will gather at the Pancho Villa roundabout, to later march to the Government Palace … Read more

Teachers Shine at Festival of Teachers and Creative Teachers

Teachers Shine at Festival of Teachers and Creative Teachers

They are part of the 98 teachers who participated in the call for the Festival of Teachers and Creative Teachers, which invited teachers from the District to participate in three languages: scenic, audiovisual and plastic arts. Art is lived in schools and its protagonists are also the teachers. In a work carried out from July … Read more