Media GRADE
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Carmela Chávez on the permanent licensing of universities: “Today we no longer have the guarantee of having basic quality conditions”
“We are facing a much bigger issue that has to do with the sustainability of the university system. Universities are being created without any kind of control. When the time comes for licensing, who ensures that they obtain licenses with basic conditions that no one is going to reevaluate?”. Carmela Chávez, Associated Researcher at GRADE, […]
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Manuel Glave and the Ministry of Infrastructure: “A reform of the State cannot be achieved merely by merging 13 entities”
“A reform of the State cannot be achieved merely by merging 13 entities. […] In fact, a comprehensive State reform is needed that addresses differentiated changes in each sector”. Our Senior Researcher Manuel Glave talked to AméricaEconomía magazine about the risks of creating an Ministry of Infrastructure in Peru.
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The urgency of critical pedagogies to transform reality, by Maria Fernanda Rodriguez
“It is in the incorporation of reality into school knowledge where the potential for the transformation of reality itself is found”. Our Adjunct Researcher María Fernanda Rodríguez collects the findings of the JustEd Educational Justice project to discuss the concept of shallow pedagogies as a form of epistemic injustice in Peru. Read the article in […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in the regional newspaper El Búho: the Peruvian agriculture situation
“We have a technological challenge to develop better food. Peru produces high quality food. Our family farming has the capacity to produce quite nutritious food, but its productivity is low. In many cases, producers have to take refuge in low value-added products and low income generation. We have to break this trap of low productivity […]
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Carmela Chávez discusses the results in creative thinking according to PISA 2022
“Improving learning processes is not a job that can fall exclusively on teachers, this development has to do with training processes both from the strengthening of the national curriculum, the investment of educational resources and above all the need to understand education as a process of training people”. Carmela Chávez, Associated Researcher at GRADE, shared […]
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Goodbye demographic bonus: the sudden aging of the Peruvian labor market, by Miguel Jaramillo
“The size of the drop in labor supply is similar to that of the drop in youth employment. Thus, the propensity to hire young people has not changed, but the supply of young people in the labor market has fallen. The causes of this lie in the conjuncture, not in some structural factor.” Our senior […]
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Alvaro Espinoza’s opinion: Seven out of every 10 homes in the national urban area are self-built
“It is construction without plans, on the fly, without respecting standards and structural safety. The people who build just repeat what was done in a previous work. There are houses that use even more material than they need because there are no correct calculations either.” Our Adjunct Researcher Alvaro Espinoza shared his opinion in a […]
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Roxana Barrantes, with the collaboration of Javier Escobal, proposes a reform of the INEI. Via Jugo.
“The INEI should perform as a data center for public management and centralize the various entities that currently provide data” The recent op-ed by Roxana Barrantes, senior researcher at IEP, with the collaboration of our senior researcher Javier Escobal, shares a proposal to reform the National Institute of Stadistics and Informatics (INEI) Via Jugo de Caigua. […]
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Liliana Miranda via Ojo Público: challenges faced by students who lack drinking water service through public network
“Like other [sectors], the education system is affected by inequality. In urban areas, the percentage [of public premises with water, electricity and sewage services] increases to 76%, but, in rural areas, it drops to 17%. Those in the Amazon region have the largest gaps”. Our Adjunct Researcher Liliana Miranda shares her opinion in this Ojo Público’s story on the challenges faced by schools […]
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Labour day: Miguel Jaramillo shares his thoughts on the state of the labour market in Peru
“I would not say that the employment has improved, but it has worsened in relation to pre-pandemic. Underemployment grew by more than 50%, the participation of young people in the labour market has fallen sharply and incomes have barely been able to keep up with inflation, thanks to the formal sector”. Our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo and other experts share […]
