Opinion Article
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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 […]
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Manuel Glave talks about the Paris Agreement, the US withdrawal and the pending commitments of Peru
According to our senior researcher, Manuel Glave, the United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement against climate change, “should not mean Peru and the Andean countries do not continue their duty to set public policies aimed at fulfilling their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions”. The video was published by Alan Fairlie, Andean Parliamentary Representative.
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Legislation for gender equity: when good intentions are not enough
For helping improve the design of policies that promote gender equity in employment, our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, analyzes the problems of two recently approved law projects. The article was published by the blog Foco Económico.
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The quality of public investment without land planning, by Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort
Why is urban public investment poorly prioritized, disjointed and fragmented? Read the article by our researchers, Álvaro Espinoza y Ricardo Fort, published in La Mula, with the main findings of their study on the quality of public investment without land planning in vulnerable neighborhoods in Lima.
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Sobre mejoras en aprendizajes, por Patricia Mc Lauchlan de Arregui
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Lights, shadows and pendings issues in education, by Santiago Cueto
“The ECE have contributed to set the learnings at the center of educational concerns”, stated Santiago Cueto, Research Director at GRADE, Country Coordinator of Young Lives in Peru and member of the Consejo Nacional de Educación, in El Comercio, on the sidelines of the 2016 national censal assessment of student performance (Evaluación Censal de Estudiantes or ECE in Spanish).
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It turns out that our social capital was better than we thought!
Why in Peru do we see a social capital in action that is not consistent with international statictics in Peru? Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, discussed in Foco Económico on the country’s low social capital in international measurements, in contrast to the solidarity of thousand of Peruvians during the national disaster as a consequence of the coastal […]
