Bolivia: Education Congress Changes Date and Venue
Bolivian Education Representants, Nov 2024 Photo:@abi
November 6, 2024 Hour: 12:48 pm
The forum was initially scheduled to take place from the 11th to the 15th of this month, but due to the problems caused by the blockades, it will now be held from the 25th to the 29th.
On Wednesday, official sources stated that Bolivians are moving ahead with preparations for the Plurinational Education Congress, whose venue and date have been changed from Cochabamba to Tarija and the opening day from 15 November to 25 November.
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The Minister of Education, Omar Véliz, affirmed that the cause of these changes are the road blockades maintained for 23 days in Cochabamba as the epicenter by radical peasants sympathetic to ex-president Evo Morales.
‘It has been decided to change the venue of the Plurinational Education Congress, which was scheduled to take place in Unasur, Cochabamba. The majority of participants, and by consensus, decided to change the venue from Cochabamba to Tarija,’ he said at a press conference with members of the Organizing Committee.
The forum was initially scheduled to take place from the 11th to the 15th of this month, but due to the problems caused by the blockades, it will now be held from the 25th to the 29th.
“The organizing committee analyzed the situation with regard to the blockades, which are causing national damage, economic asphyxiation and frustration of programmed activities such as the congress,” Veliz lamented.
According to forecasts, more than 700 representatives from 60 social organizations, public and private institutions are expected to participate in the meeting on the basis of regulations and methodological guidelines.
Bolivian President Luis Arce convened the Plurinational Education Congress 2024 on 3 June at an event held at the Casa Grande del Pueblo (government headquarters), where he announced that this forum ‘will outline the country’s educational horizons in order to train new citizens who will contribute to its development’.
He then considered that the meeting should serve to establish very clearly the guidelines of the education policy.
He characterized education policy as inclusive, scientific, technological, productive, revolutionary, liberating, progressive, intracultural, intercultural, plurilingual, decolonizing and depatriarchalizing.
He explained that the development of the congress marks a milestone in the educational sphere to eradicate the problems and deficiencies that have been dragging on at different levels of academic training, limitations that were evident during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Arce considered that ‘quite a few years’ have passed since the approval of the current Education Law, which today deserves to be reviewed and analyzed, in coordination with all the actors involved in this activity, in view of the qualitative change that is required.
He said that this criterion is valid for educators and students in primary, secondary, technological and higher education, where ‘we still do not achieve what we need’, he said.
Autor: OSG
Fuente: The Independent-The Star
