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2020  As Campus Crumbles and Students Flee, Venezuela's Main University Struggles to Survive COVID-19 | World News | US News   The Crisis in Venezuela - BORGEN (borgenmagazine.com)   2019  Venezuela: Education in Crisis | ACEI-Global (acei-global.blog)   Venezuelan universities ‘approaching point of no return’ | Times Higher Education (THE)   2018 Higher Education in Venezuela: Faculty Exodus from Public Universities - Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights (venezuelablog.org) Crisis Zone: 10 Facts about Living Conditions in Venezuela | The Borgen Project   2017 Venezuela’s Higher Education Crisis Worsens - Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights (venezuelablog.org)   Venezuela’s universities feel the sting of economic and political crisis - The Washington Post Higher education ‘under siege’ in Venezuela | THE News (timeshighereducation.com)   2016 Venezuela’s Students Seek Lessons in the Streets - WSJ The Education Crisis in Venezuela results of years of excess (borgenmagazine.com)  

Repost - Venezuelan universities ‘approaching point of no return’ (The World University Rankins 2019)

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  Venezuelan universities ‘approaching point of no return’  Institutions could have an important role in rebuilding the country, but the latest crisis could push them over the edge February 3, 2019 Rachael Pells Twitter:  @rachaelpells University leaders in Venezuela have called on the United Nations to intervene in the country’s political crisis amid warnings that the deterioration of the higher education system is approaching the point of no return. After years of political turmoil resulting in sky-high inflation rates and scant public investment, some 3 million Venezuelans are said to have left the country since 2014. Many of them are believed to be students and early career professionals, including academics who can no longer afford to live on what they receive from poverty-stricken universities. Source: Getty Scores of people have died in protests sparked by the stand-off between Nicolás Maduro, who has led the country since 2013, and Juan Guaidó, the president of the National Ass

REPOST - As Campus Crumbles and Students Flee, Venezuela's Main University Struggles to Survive COVID-19 (US NEWS 2020)

  As Campus Crumbles and Students Flee, Venezuela's Main University Struggles to Survive COVID-19 By Reuters, Wire Service Content Oct. 7, 2020, at 12:31 p.m. More U.S. News & World Report As Campus Crumbles and Students Flee, Venezuela's Main University Struggles to Survive COVID-19 More Reuters Chairs are seen at the Aula Magna of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), in Caracas, Venezuela September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Fausto TorrealbaREUTERS BY VIVIAN SEQUERA CARACAS (Reuters) - The corridors are empty and silent at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education, as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the evacuation of its 32,000 students. The 298-year-old university is suffering not only the impact of the coronavirus quarantine, but also a six-year economic crisis that has left it struggling with a meager budget and the emigration of 30% of its graduates. The deterioration of its infrastructure stood out i

Repost - Venezuela’s universities feel the sting of economic and political crisis (Washington Post 2017)

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Repost - Venezuela’s universities feel the sting of economic and political crisis  CARACAS, VENEZUELA —  Nicolás Bianco, vice rector of the Central University of Venezuela, sat under a wall of framed academic honors, gazing out his office window. The sprawling institution founded in 1721 once teemed with students. But the 74-year-old was silent as he surveyed the near-empty campus outside. "How do you explain to students what real college life is supposed to be like?" said Bianco, an alumnus of the university, the country's largest. "They'll never know." Venezuela's economic and political crisis has sparked food and  medical shortages , the world's highest inflation rate and allegations of a  power grab  by the ruling socialists. But it is also threatening the country's future by ravaging higher education. Universities here — especially the Central University of Venezuela, or UCV in Spanish — have long ranked among Latin America's best. As re

REPOST - Economic, political crisis hits Venezuela universities (The Observer)

 REPOST - Economic, political crisis hits Venezuela universities (The Observer)    20/04/2018   Oman Observer Alex VASQUEZ – Teachers unable to pay the bus fare to get to class, students stuck in long supermarket lines in the quest for affordable food: Venezuela’s academics say the deep economic crisis is paralysing the country’s universities. Venezuela’s universities have long ranked as among Latin America’s best. But the acute economic and political crisis has forced students to drop out in droves, and teachers are following them out of the country. Last month, the University of Zulia (LUZ) in northwestern city of Maracaibo cut courses to three days a week to try to ease the problems that students, professors and employees are facing just to turn up each day. “We are working every day, but we are organising ourselves so that every teacher, student or employee comes about three times a week,” said Judith Aular, the LUZ’s rector. Lectures and study material are given out over the Inter