Lima, Peru | Wednesday 20 August 2008 16:21 | |
According to 2007 national census data, the greatest reduction in Peru’s illiteracy rate was registered in the female population, especially in rural and extremely poor areas, said on Wednesday the education deputy minister Victor Raul Diaz Chavez.
In his message to the nation from the Congress of the Republic, Peru’s President Alan García Perez announced there would be one million more Peruvians that are literate by November this year.
Based on information taken from the national census carried out in October 2007, the number of illiterate people in Peru has decreased 5.7 percentage points, said Renan Quispe, the head of country's national statistics institute (INEI).
Peruvian students came home from the 49th edition of the International Math Olympics in Spain with one gold medal, three silver ones and a bronze medal.
Hugo Neira, the director of Peru's national library expressed he was concerned about the country's educational situation and asked the National Association of Municipalities (AMPE) to encourage municipalities to build more libraries in their jurisdictions.
Student protests and even violent confrontations with Peru's national police have not managed to stop the Municipality of Lima from using property that belongs to a university to build a new road.
Peru's Minister of Education, Jose Antonio Chang and the executive president of Peru’s Geophysical Institute, Ronald Woodman inaugurated a modern planetarium in Lima on Thursday.
As a part of the 2008 National Formation and Training Program (PRONAFCAP), six private universities in Peru have agreed to train 9,445 of the Andean country's teachers, announced the nation's vice-minister of education, Idel Vexler.
Over 8,000 teachers that failed an academic exam in March were given another opportunity to teach for the country's public schools on Sunday June 1.
After only 151 out of over 180,000 teachers in Peru passed an academic exam in March, the government deiced to give teachers that failed another chance.
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