News of schools

Government rolls out five-stage plan to vaccinate teachers

24-02-2021 16:36 Government announces that it will vaccinate teachers with the one million Sinopharm doses that are due to arrive from China on Friday. First round of vaccines will be given to over 450,000 teachers working in pre-school, special needs and primary schools.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Buenos Aires Province begins vaccinating those aged 70+

18-02-2021 13:58 Provincial government begins to give first shots of Sputnik V vaccine to citizens aged over 70, using schools and other sites as temporary vaccination centres.

BACK TO SCHOOL

Schools in Argentina finally re-open doors to students

17-02-2021 14:54 Schoolchildren from five of Argentina's 24 regional districts returned to classrooms on Wednesday for the first time in almost a year, as the country began a gradual restart of face-to-face classes.

Back to school

Trotta vows face-to-face classes for students 'at least three times a week'

01-02-2021 18:27 As tensions between unions and officials continue, Education Minister Nicolás Trotta says schools will be allowed to have face-to-face classes three times a week.

EDUCATION

Tensions soar over return of face-to-face classes

23-01-2021 10:25 Education Minister Nicolás Trotta confirms ‘school classes will return to the City of Buenos Aires on February 17 and to Buenos Aires Province on March 1,’ with all other provinces following by March 15.

EDITORIAL

Too cool for school, or too hot?

16-01-2021 07:27 Education is the real orphan of the debate on systemic change.

Global pandemic

UK PM Johnson orders new lockdown, closes schools in England

04-01-2021 17:23 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced new strict coronavirus restrictions, closing schools and ordering a third national lockdown for England.

A DISASTROUS YEAR

2020 is coming to an end, luckily

26-12-2020 09:24 The spotlight on justice is irreversible and its consequences have defined the year, along with the coronavirus.

by Beatriz Sarlo

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Devastated by Covid, Latin America is now unprepared for vaccine

10-12-2020 00:58 With eight percent of the globe’s population and 30 percent of its Covid-19 deaths, Latin America is facing the pandemic’s next phase – mass vaccination – with alarm.

Coronavirus pandemic

Education minister targets March 1 for return of face-to-face classes

02-12-2020 00:05 Education Minister Nicolás Trotta says face-to-face classes will be "essential" next year and says government is targeting March 1 return for classes in 17 provinces.

AS I SEE IT

We don't need no education

21-11-2020 09:38 Instead of campaigning to get their members back to work, Argentina’s teachers’ unions are determined to prolong the longest school holiday ever until everyone has been properly vaccinated.

by James Neilson

Coronavirus pandemic

Dozen secondary schools re-open doors in Buenos Aires City

13-10-2020 16:44 Twelve schools re-opened their doors in the capital on Tuesday, with teachers hosting the first face-to-face classes in Buenos Aires City for seven months.

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Education officials authorise return of classes under ‘traffic light’ scheme

10-10-2020 08:39 Federal Education Council unanimously approves re-opening of classrooms in educational institutions, subject to the discretion of each district.

Coronavirus pandemic

Students in San Juan Province happy to be back in the classroom

10-08-2020 23:54 Students in the last years of primary and secondary school return to their desks, in groups of no more than 15 students at a time.

Coronavirus pandemic

Students in San Juan Province first to return to face-to-face classes

10-08-2020 01:25 Children and teenagers in the province will return to schools under a “bimodal” education system, “bubble” classrooms and with a sanitary kit for each student.

Back to school?

Education Minister: 85% of schools in Argentina will likely re-open in August

09-06-2020 16:32 Education Minister Nicolás Trotta says that 85% of students may be able to return to classes in August. Schools in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area will have to wait until infections in the region begin to drop off.

Post-quarantine plan

Lifting lockdown? Against coronavirus, no one size fits all

24-04-2020 13:37 Without a tried-and-tested action plan for how to pull countries out of coronavirus lockdown, the world is seeing a patchwork of approaches.

Coronavirus pandemic

12 new people test positive for coronavirus, lifting total to 68

16-03-2020 21:47 The update, which involves new cases diagnosed in the last 24 hours, is the largest daily rise yet since the coronavirus outbreak began.

Coronavirus pandemic

Buenos Aires City government adopts new measures to curb virus

16-03-2020 14:48 City Mayor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta moves to mitigate circulation of coronavirus in capital. But don't worry – you can still get married...

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina to close schools for two weeks, borders to visitors

15-03-2020 21:02 Kindergarten, primary and secondary schools to be suspended until March 31; Argentina's borders to be closed to all non-residents effective immediately; Number of confirmed cases rises to 56.

CORONAVIRUS CONSEQUENCES

It would be ‘counterproductive’ to close schools, says health minister

14-03-2020 08:35 Health Minister Ginés González García and Education Minister Nicolás Trotta confirms schools will remain open – for now.

PROTESTS IN ECUADOR

Ecuador's president agrees deal with indigenous to end protests

14-10-2019 11:58 Ecuador celebrated a deal President Lenín Moreno and indigenous leaders struck late Sunday to cancel a disputed austerity package and end nearly two weeks of protests that have paralyzed the economy and left seven dead.

ECUADOR IN CRISIS

Clashes at protests in Ecuador over fuel price hike, oil facilities seized

08-10-2019 09:26 President Lenín Moreno accuses predecessor and ex-ally Rafael Correa and Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro of an "attempted coup d'état." Government business temporarily moved to the port city of Guayaquil.

PROTESTS

Ecuador's declares state of emergency after clashes over fuel prices

04-10-2019 09:17 Clashes broke out between protesters and police in Ecuador after President Lenín Moreno declared a state of emergency Thursday following demonstrations against rising fuel prices due to the government scrapping subsidies. Moreno's measure allow the government to restrict movement, to employ the Armed Forces to maintain order and to censor the press.