February 7th, 2020 Photo credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Colombia has pledged to be the most educated country in Latin America by 2025. It has laid out several initiatives to achieve this goal which we covered in a blog post last year. Colombia is also facing an influx of refugees from its neighboring Venezuela. According to […]
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COLOMBIA: Education and Opportunities
May 10th, 2019 Recently, ACEI’s President & CEO, Jasmin Saidi-Kuehnert, spoke on Colombia’s education system and opportunities for student mobility through its e-learning webinar series. And last week on May 4-5, at the invitation of the Embassy of Colombia in the U.S., ACEI attended the inaugural education fair hosted by the Embassy of Colombia in […]
Nashira Eco-Village In Colombia A Matriarchal Example Of Women Empowerment
April 26th, 2019 Commentary: Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Angela Dolmetsh, Ph.D., on Facebook. It turns out that both Angela and I attended the same boarding school in England. Charters Towers School was based in the small sleepy retirement community of Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex. It was an international boarding school for girls and […]
33 Facts on Colombia and its Education System
September 14th, 2018 General Country Facts: 1. Located in northern South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Panama and Venezuela, and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Ecuador and Panama 2. Slightly less than twice the size of Texas 3. It has a population of 47,698,524 (July 2017 est.) 4. It’s capital is Bogota 5. […]