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Santiago Cueto and the impact of the teachers strike in Peruvian student’s achievement
“The time students spend engaged in pedagogical tasks is linked to their levels of achievement later”. América Televisión highlights our Research Director, Santiago Cueto‘s thoughts on the impact of the teachers strike in the education of Peruvian children.
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Hugo Ñopo: “Teaching is one of the highly bullied careers in Perú”
“Enhancing the teaching career means improving salaries, making it a meritocratic career, but also for the social recognition of the relevance of the profession. This is set up after decades of joint work”. Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, discussed the state of the teaching career in Peru and share recommendations to strengthen the dialogue between teachers and the Goverment. Hugo was […]
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Teachers strike: a greater fiscal deficit hampers an increase of salaries. Hugo Ñopo shares his thoughts
“What we should be asking to ourselves is what teaching profession do we want for our middle-income country which aspires to be a member of a select circle of countries like the OECD”, said Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, with emphasis on teaching inequality with respect to other Peruvian professionals. Semana Económica gathered Hugo’s thoughts on the sidelines of the […]
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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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Santiago Cueto: “We lack greater progress in equity in the Peruvian educational system”
“We lack greater progress in equity in the Peruvian educational system. […] it is key to invest in the first years of life”. Santiago Cueto, Country Coordinator of Young Lives Peru and Research Director at GRADE, shared the findings of his study “Educational trajectories in Peru: from childhood to early adulthood“ in Salgalu TV’s Open Dialogue.
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Hugo Ñopo: Law should have been applied from the beginning
“A better education for Peruvians will not be possible without greater tax collection. A bigger budget for the sector relies on it. Citizens must tax and abandon informality” said Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, in Perú. 21 newspaper, regarding the recent teacher’s strike in Peru.
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Interview with Hugo Ñopo: teachers salaries and public investment in education
“We have to consolidate the teaching profession with representatives who are valid and recognized by the great majority. This a first step to move forward. Then comes the improvement of the teaching career, which goes through wages, but also by making those who ascend are in fact the most effective teachers”. Our senior researcher, Hugo […]
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Six in 10 private schools are low-cost and mostly of subsistence
What is the situation of private education in Peru? The newspaper Gestión highlighted some of the topics discussed in the presentation of the study by our senior researchers, María Balarin and Hugo Ñopo, on the functioning of the market of educational services in our country [Video and wrap-up of the presentation here].
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Political analyst José Carlos Requena highlights a study by Juan José Díaz and Hugo Ñopo on the teaching career in Peru
Political analyst José Carlos Requena highlights the study of our senior researchers Juan José Díaz and Hugo Ñopo on the teaching career in Peru, which is part of the book for our 35th anniversary: “We believe that a fundamental incentive for the career is to increase its prestige and for this, it is a priority to improve the salaries of teachers”. […]
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Alfredo Torres’s op-ed highlights data by Hugo Ñopo on teacher salaries
The Executive Chairman at IPSOS Perú, Alfredo Torres, highlights data on teacher salaries, published by our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo in Twitter: “No one argues that teacher salaries should improve, but the they are also improving. According to calculations by Hugo Ñopo, researcher at GRADE, their salaries at constant prices are now less than half that in the 1960s, but also […]
