News of university

Qatar 2022 World Cup

Welcome to Doha, Señor Messi

17-11-2022 10:49 Argentina fans – from all over the world – gather outside a university in Doha, trying to catch a glimpse of their heroes.

PROPERTY PRICES

Survey: Buenos Aires is third most expensive city in region for real estate

05-05-2022 16:49 Santiago de Chile and Montevideo top ranking of most expensive cities for real estate in Latin America, according to a new survey.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

UCA: 65% of children in Argentina living in poverty

08-12-2021 09:45 According to UCA’s Social Debt Observatory, 43.8% of the country’s population was considered poor as of last October, a drop of almost a point on the previous year’s total of 44.7%.

FRENCH PRESIDENT

UBA awards Emmanuel Macron a doctorate for work on environment

27-10-2021 15:25 Buenos Aires University (UBA) Chancellor Alberto Barbieri on Tuesday awarded a ‘honoris causa’ doctorate to French President Emmanuel Macron for his role in the struggle to preserve the environment.

And that reminds me...

Universities Breed Awareness

14-08-2021 07:30 Two centuries ago, UBA was inaugurated in San Ignacio Church next to what is today the Colegio Nacional, giving life to an edict dated August 9, 1821 issued by Buenos Aires Governor Martín Rodríguez – the university was thus pre-presidential.

by Michael Soltys

Coronavirus vaccine

Officials head to Mexico, Cuba for Covid-19 vaccine talks

24-05-2021 15:43 Two key officials in Alberto Fernández’s government are travelling to Mexico and Cuba for talks over arrival of new vaccines against Covid-19.

AS I SEE IT

Back to square one

10-04-2021 08:11 For poorer countries, among them Argentina, salvation is still a long way off.

by James Neilson

Vaccine delivery

Argentina takes delivery of 218,000 vaccine doses via Covax scheme

28-03-2021 22:40 Argentina took delivery of 218,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 on Sunday, the country's first shipment from the World Health Organisation's Covax scheme.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Major EU nations halt AstraZeneca as WHO says it is safe

15-03-2021 22:00 EU's largest countries joined stream of states halting rollouts of AstraZeneca jabs over blood clot fears, as the World Health Organisation and Europe's medicines watchdog insisted it was safe to use.

Dino discovery

Titanosaur found in Patagonia may be oldest yet, says study

01-03-2021 11:10 A colossal dinosaur dug up in the south of the country could be the oldest titanosaur ever found, scientists said Sunday.

REMEMBERING MARIO BUNGE

Difficult but necessary

27-02-2021 08:06 To write about Mario Bunge today, one year after his death on February 24, 2020, at the age of 100, is for me on the one hand difficult, but on the other necessary.