Opinion Article
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From the countryside to the city, by Hugo Ñopo
“The strategy of becoming a ‘country of entrepreneurs’ is not only ineffective in combating poverty, but it has negative impacts on our aggregate productivity. For poor households -the focus of our attention today- dependent employment is better less uncertainties.” Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, explains in El Comercio what is the new reality of Peruvian […]
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San Marcos: an issue or sympton of something major?, by Hugo Ñopo
According to our senior researcher Hugo Ñopo, the claims of the students of the National University of San Marcos are symptoms of a major problem: “It is a network of interdependent problems that arrived a long time ago and concern the university system, not just San Marcos: Two central elements of this network are financing and governance. […]
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What would Vizcarra say?, by Hugo Ñopo
What does Martin Vizcarra’s experience in education tell us? Our senior researcher Hugo Ñopo writes in El Comercio about the achievement in learning indicators of students in Moquegua while Vizcarra was its regional president, and what could be attempted at the national level.
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The authorities change, the challenges continue, by Hugo Ñopo
“It is important to maintain the prohibition of creating new universities. We do not need, we need better”. Regarding the recent change of authority in the National Supervisory Authority for Higher Education (Sunedu), our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, writes in El Comercio about the pending policy challenges to improve the Peruvian university system.
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Labor policy: we must look at the evidence, by Miguel Jaramillo
“We need a system that provides flexibility, decriminalizes dismissal and protects workers, not jobs”. Miguel Jaramillo, Executive Director at GRADE, shares his thoughts in El Comercio on effects of the contract reform promoted by the TC (Peruvian Constitutional Court) over the decisions regarding the type of contract used in the labor market and its consequences […]
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Labor stability: good intentions and perverse results, by Miguel Jaramillo
Miguel Jaramillo shares his thoughts in Gestión about the effects of the labor reform promoted by the Constitutional Court in 2001 on the type of contract decisions and the well-being of workers: “This reform led to the replacement of just over 900,000 permanent jobs. Due to permanent contracts offer better salaries than temporary contracts, the loss […]
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Inclusive education: What can be done to achieve it?
How can we achieve a truly inclusive education? In an exchange of e-mails, Mariana Rodríguez, chair at Laureate in Peru, and Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, discusses discrepancies and found matching points to address the challenge of improving education in our country. The article was published by El Comercio.
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Hugo Ñopo: We must not fear the evaluation
Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, criticizes the various legislative initiatives to rethink the teacher achievement test: “The fact is that those who are not up to the country’s education have to step aside for the good of the system. Today, they are given up to three opportunities to pass the test and stay in the teacher career”.
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This is not an emergency, by Hugo Ñopo
“The precariousness of teacher salaries is just a sympton of something bigger: the abandonment in which we have left our education”. Read the latest op-ed by Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, published in El Comercio, about the current teacher’s strike and public investment in education.
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Manuel Glave shares his thoughts on genetic resources, patents and genetic biopiracy
Our senior researcher, Manuel Glave, gives his thoughts on genetic resources and their economic exploitation: “The countries of the Andean Community are called to lead a new negotiation that guarantees the paradigm of access to benefits and share them equitably, with innovative mechanisms. The patent model fails to incorporate the collective rights of the ethnic groups that […]
