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Weekly Report - 17 July 2014 (WR-14-28)
PERU: Shaking up education to sustain growth
“Peru will not only sustain itself through selling minerals. We need to depend more on training, intelligence, and the innovation which future generations can bring us,” President Ollanta Humala said while promulgating a new education law. The law seeks not only to improve the quality of higher education - no Peruvian university features in the top 500 universities worldwide and only three are in the top 100 in Latin America – but also to better equip students for working life. Its critics argue that it violates university autonomy by concentrating decision-making power in the government’s hands.
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