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Tuesday, 6 de May de 2025Aranza Ballesteros
Aranaza holds a degree in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and will support as a research assistant to the project team: ‘AdaptED – Observatory for Educational Resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean’, led by Santiago Cueto, principal investigator.
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Sunday, 27 de April de 2025
Resisting regulation: Revealing orders of worth behind the debate over private education regulation in Peru
Although the regulation of private education has been a disputed topic in academic and policy debates, there is a lack of recognition regarding the underlying structures that inform such opposing viewpoints. Through a sociological understanding of disputes, I propose to see through the lenses of the market to understand the contested visions at play in […]
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Thursday, 24 de April de 2025
Interrupción escolar en secundaria en el Perú: datos, evidencia y políticas
Discontinuation of schooling by students in secondary education in Peru is a critical problem that impacts the development of young people and their future opportunities. Despite advances in educational coverage, structural challenges persist that unequally affect different groups of students. This paper examines trends in secondary school dropout, its main causes and the public policies […]
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Friday, 4 de April de 2025
Alan Sánchez and Antonio Campos joined academic events held by the University of Lancaster.
Our Senior Researcher Alan Sanchez and Adjunct Researcher Antonio Campos joined two events held last week by Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. As part of the workshop Innovations in Social Data Science: Tackling Inequality in Resource-Constrained Contexts with Novel Data and Methods, held by Lancaster University School of Mathematical Sciences, Alan presented “Measuring cognitive skills through […]
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Monday, 17 de March de 2025
The crisis and the market: regulating Peru’s ungoverned private education market
Since the mid-1990s, Peru has undergone a process of default educational privatization, with the private education market now accounting for more than a quarter of the country’s enrolments. Such growth has taken place in an extremely loose and disorganized regulatory context, resulting in an extremely heterogeneous private education market, both in terms of supply and […]
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Thursday, 6 de March de 2025
Santiago Cueto on Epicentro.TV: Initial findings from the round 7 of the Young Lives survey in Peru
“A person born into a poor, rural, indigenous family, in general, is going to attend a lower quality school, is going to have lower educational attainment, is less likely to enter college, and is less likely to have the income of his or her more fortunate peers.” Our Senior Researcher Santiago Cueto spoke with Epicentro.TV’s […]
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Friday, 28 de February de 2025
Young Lives attrition report: Round 7
Over more than 20 years, Young Lives has followed two cohorts born seven years apart (Favara et al. 2021). This technical note documents the attrition rates from the seventh round of the Young Lives survey carried out in Ethiopia, India (the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) and Peru in 2023–24, when the Younger Cohort […]
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Tuesday, 25 de February de 2025
María Balarin comments on the growing expansion of low-cost private schools in Lima
“There is a population group that does not feel well served because there is no supply or because they consider that the supply is not good for their needs (…). The question is whether these schools should exist. Should we allow schools to educate students with an investment of S/200 per month? What is the […]
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Wednesday, 12 de February de 2025
Policy implementation in a sisyphean state: improving pedagogical practice in Perú through the Soporte Pedagógico programme
The need to reform pedagogical practice in Peruvian schools has been on the country’s policy agenda at least since the mid-1990s. Since then, the country has undergone several attempts at reform through curriculum change and various in-service training attempts that relied on top-down implementation models and achieved only partial changes. In 2013, an innovative programme […]
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Tuesday, 21 de January de 2025
Tablets or mobiles? Use of devices for a reading application during the pandemic
The objective of this research was to identify if there is a differentiated impact on the access and use of a reading application (Booksmart, by Worldreader) between students who used tablets compared to those who used mobile phones to access the resource. It also sought to understand the perceptions of the actors involved regarding the use of the application on each […]
