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Guatemala’s MSPAS suggests to resume classes despite outbreak

Published on: February 20, 2024
14:35

Guatemala City, Feb 20 (Prensa Latina) Guatemala’s Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (MSPAS) suggested to resume classes in the municipalities affected by the outbreak of acute neurological disease.

Ecuador suspends classes due to serious security crisis

Published on: January 9, 2024
17:11

Quito, Jan 9 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador´s Education Ministry on Tuesday announced the suspension of on-site classes nationwide as a result of the country´s serious security crisis as well as armed conflict decreed by President Daniel Noboa.

Virtual classes available in Ecuador due to wave of violence

Published on: January 9, 2024
13:08

Quito, Jan 9 (Prensa Latina) The Ecuadorian Ministry of Education on Tuesday ordered virtual classes for educational centers near prisons, due to the wave of violence unleashed here.

Netherlands to ban electronic devices in classrooms in 2024

Published on: July 5, 2023
00:15

Amsterdam, Jul 5 (Prensa Latina) Mobile phones, tablets and smartwatches will be practically banned in classrooms in the Netherlands starting on January 1, 2024, the government announced on Tuesday.

Mandatory on-site classes in São Paulo

Published on: October 13, 2021
11:35

Brasilia, Oct 13 (Prensa Latina) On-site classes will once again be compulsory throughout the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo as of next Monday, the State Secretariat of Education confirmed today.

Cuba to resume school year on Monday

Published on: October 2, 2021
10:37

Havana, Oct 2 (Prensa Latina) Around 84,585 pre-university students from high school, technical-vocational institutes (ETPs, in Spanish) and pedagogical training will return to classes on Monday in the gradual restart of the 2020-2021 school year, Education Minister Ena Elsa Velazquez announced.

Cuba restarts classes and vaccinations

Published on: September 6, 2021
10:39

Havana, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuba opened on Monday the 2020-2021 school year through televised classes and as the children's Covid-19 vaccination progresses schools will gradually reopen for in site classes throughout the country.

Millions of students returned to on-site classes in Mexico

Published on: August 30, 2021
17:58

Mexico, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) About 25 million students of all levels returned today in Mexico to classes after 17 months of confinement in the 32 states of the country, including the capital. The Covid-19 pandemic attacked Mexico in February 2020, and on March 20, with the first death from the disease, the order was given to close schools and that was the last day that more than 25 million students in basic education were in the classrooms of the more than 233,000 centers in the country.

Covid-19 has worsened inequalities in Chilean society

Published on: August 27, 2021
10:53

Santiago de Chile, Aug 27 (Prensa Latina) The huge gap between social classes, which is typical in neoliberal Chile, has further widened during the Covid-19 pandemic, so the richest have become richer and the poorest have become poorer.

Authorized teaching centers resume face-to-face classes in Ecuador

Published on: June 7, 2021
10:24

Quito, Jun 7 (Prensa Latina) About 1,301 educational centers in Ecuador on Monday resume face-to-face classes, after receiving authorization from the national Emergency Operations Committee, while the country maintains restrictions due to Covid-19.

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