Full Send: Venezuelan University Joins Emerging Esports Scene
While some Russian investors are forming a team in El Yaque, one of Venezuela’s main universities just started to train professional gamers. What’s going on?
Tag: Universities
Fighting for Political Control in Venezuela’s Main Campus
Anchored in the nostalgia of power, the opposition has fought fiercely to gain control of the UCV student movement. Although it’s a legitimate struggle to capture new leaders, the strategy pushes university students further away
The Many Faces of Censorship in Academia
In Venezuela and parts of Latin America, authoritarianism and economic blackmail are suffocating universities. In North America, scholars have to deal with a different kind of pressure
Why Go to College in Venezuela?
In a very hostile social context and with tuitions being beyond what most can pay, we talked to a few fortunate young Venezuelans to know their expectations for the future with the education they’re getting today
UCAB’s Zero Tolerance Policy for Abuse
The Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) has become the first private Venezuelan university to create a protocol for sexual abuse prevention and gender or sexual identity discrimination—and it's tending also to harassment complaints
Professors: From Riches to Rags
Professors in Venezuela used to do well enough to sustain themselves and their families. With their current wages, they’re a step away from starving
How Many of Us Will Graduate?
The first class of Journalism at Mérida’s Universidad de los Andes campus started in July 2016, with 25 students. Three years later, there are only eight. This essay is part of La Vida de Nos’ #SemilleroDeNarradores
Negligence Is Destroying a Venezuelan Architectural Treasure
Part of the concrete canopy of the famous corridors that connect the buildings of Ciudad Universitaria collapsed this morning
Must be the U.S. constitution he's reading...
In a rare bit of (seemingly) good news for the opposition, President Chávez has decided to veto the Universities Law that the 95% chavista outgoing National Assembly just...
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