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Latin America and the Caribbean: Beyond Neoliberalism?

This important event will be in Groningen on November 18 and 19, 2010. This event is organized by The Netherlands Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS), in collaboration with the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) and the Center for Mexico (CEM) of the University of Groningen, and the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA). In this event will address various topics of development.

You can see the program here

Groningen University

Groningen University is located in the city of Groningen. This University was founded in 1614. It is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands.

Now Groningen University has 26,800 students; 3,500 international students, 9 faculties, Bachelor, Master and PhD programmes.

The Groningen canals, ports and warehouses take you back to 14th century Hanseatic times, when Groningen was a member of this alliance of trading gluilds.

The University of Groningen and the city of Groningen are a good place to study. If you need more information about this University you can see in: www.rug.nl

In Lima, Peru high school students learn about Internet from their peers and by themselves

In Lima Peru high school students of public schools learn about Internet from their peers and by themselves. This is a result of the research developed in the capital of Peru, Lima by Prof. Dr. Raul Choque, graduated from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos with the supervision of Prof. Dr. Cristobal Suarez from Universidad de Salamanca of  Spain.

1,141 students of high school that are studyng in 4th and 5th grade were part of the research. The results showed that teachers do not teach students how to use the Internet. Students learn mainly from their peers and also when they are searching on the Internet.

Other important result of this research was that students use Internet mainly to get information, to communicate and in minor proportion for school activities. Other important result is that 80% of students access Internet in public booths, therefore the Ministry of Education should make a campain about the use Internet in booths with educational goals.

A reflexion about this research is that in the integration of computers and Internet in the educational system, teachers should first be trained in the use of Internet and use of different tools that can allow students to improve the educational activities.

You can see more information about this research:

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Efficacy of an educational program on life skills in Peru

Efficacy of an educational program on life skills in a high school at the district of Huancavelica, Peru  

Author: Raul Choque  

Abstract  

This study aimed to determine the efficacy of a life skills educational program in a high school at the district of Huancavelica, Peru during year 2006. The method applied in this study was a quasi experimental research using a pre-test and post-test with a comparison group. The subjects were 284 students from high school. This study considered variables such as communication, self-esteem, assertiveness, decision making, sex, age, and methodology of education.  

The results of this study indicated that the students’ skills of assertiveness and communication improved in the experimental group. Moreover, the most used methodology was the interactive methodology in the experimental group.  

In conclusion, the educational program in life skills is effective in a school year in relation to the skills of communication and assertiveness. However, the skills of self- esteem and decision making did not demonstrate a statistical significant difference. Thus, it is necessary to evaluate its implementation.  

Key words: life skills, evaluation, efficacy  

Videos of One Laptop Per Child Program in Peru

There are two important videos about the One Laptop Per Child Program in Peru. The first video is about the implementation of this Program in the highland of Peru. You can see the implementation of this project and how the students are working with this tool to improve their learning. The second video is about the implementation of this Program in the lowland regions.

Video of One Laptop Per Child in highland of Peru

Video of One Laptop Per Child in lowland of Peru

Today is International Internet Day

Today, May 17 in the World is the Internet Day. That is why in different countries around the World there are activities such as conferences, meetings, visits to Universities and also activities on line. In 2006 the United Nations approved May 17 of each year as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day.

The number of Internet users in the World are the following:  In North America there are 259 millions of users, in Latin America y The Caribean 186 millions of users, in Africa 86 millions of users, in Europe 425 millions of users, in Asia 764 millions of users and Australia 21 millions of users.

The most important milestones of Internet are the following:

1969: Through Arpanet three universities in North America were connected.

1972: The first public demostration of Arpanet.

1994: Jerry Yang founded Yahoo.

1998: Sergey Brin y Larry Page founded Google.

2000: There were 20 millions of websites.

2004: Marck Zuckerberg founded Facebook.

2005: Youtube was founded.

2010: There are 1,700 millions of Internet users.

Indicators of the basic public education in Peru

In Peru several evaluations about the quality of the basic education have been developed. These evaluations were developed in rural and urban areas.

First of all, it is very important to mention that basic education in Peru has three levels. The first level is pre school, students that attend this level are 3, 4 or 5 years of age. The second level is the primary school, usually students are six years old in this level.  Primary school starts when children are 6 years of age. The third level is the secondary school, students study in this level five years.

In order to know the quality of the education, the Ministry of Education in Peru developed a national evaluation. This was developed in 2004. The main results about this evaluation were the following:

1. In the second grade of primary education, 15,1% of students got a good performance in reading comprehension.  15,2%  of school girls got a good performance and 15,1% of school boys got the same level of performance.  9,5% of students from public schools got a good performance and 48,5% students from private schools got a good performance . This means that more or less half of students of private schools got a very good performance. According to urban and rural standards, 14,5% of students of urban areas got a good performance and 2,5% of students of rural areas got a good performance. Therefore the bad performance in primary school is focused on public schools and rural schools.

2. In the second grade of primary education, 9,6% of students got a good performance in math.  8,3% of girls got a good performance and 10,9% of boys got a good performance . 6,1% of students from public schools got a good performance and 30,4% students from private schools got a good performance. According to urban and rural standards, 8,8% of students of urban areas got a good performance and 2,4% of students of rural areas got a good performance. Therefore the bad performance in primary school is focused on public schools and rural schools.

As we can see, the last national evaluation was developed in 2004. After this date we do not have additional information on the performance of the students. Last year, Peru participated in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). In this evaluation 280 secondary schools were evaluated (schools with 15 years of age students). The evaluation was about reading comprehension. In Peru there is a lot of expectation about the results of the PISA. In 2001, the results from PISA were very bad for Peru.  But lately the Ministry of Education and other organizations implemented different projects and programs to improve the quality of the education.

You can see the countries that participated in PISA 2009 here