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Colegio Theodoro Hertzl School Reports 2 Antisemitic Incidents

Medellin Herald February 28, 2024

Colegio Theodoro Hertzl – a nominally Jewish primary/secondary school in the Medellin suburb of Envigado, well-known for its outstanding scholarship, multiculturalism, peacefulness and tolerance – announced February 27 a pair of antisemitic incidents, but fortunately these didn’t involve

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Free College Tuition Debuts for 97% of Colombians This Year

Medellin Herald May 12, 2021

Colombia President Ivan Duque announced May 11 that the government has just decided to extend tuition-free college education for 97% of students attending public universities and technical colleges here, starting the second half of 2021. The historic move puts Colombia way ahead of many nations — including the relatively wealthy United States — by eliminating

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Medellin Council to Vote on Record US$1.6 Billion Budget for Public Education

Medellin Herald May 21, 2020

Right on the heels of Colombia President Ivan Duque’s new announcement that Colombia will launch alternating-shifts of physical/virtual school and university education in August, Medellin Education Secretary Alexandra Agudelo Ruiz unveiled a record-setting COP$6.2 trillion (US$1.6 billion) budget for the coming school year. If the Medellin City Council gives approval

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Colombia, Antioquia Making Huge Leaps in Tech Education with SENA Initiatives

Medellin Herald February 6, 2020

Colombia’s giant national technical/technological training institute SENA (Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje) announced February 4 a COP$20 billion (US$6 million) investment in a new training-center campus in La Ceja, Antioquia — serving multiple municipalities in Medellin’s “oriente” region. According to the joint announcement by La Ceja Mayor Nelson Carmona Lopera

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World Bank, FDN Team-up in Finance for Medellin Public-School Expansions

Medellin Herald June 29, 2018

The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Colombia’s Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional (FDN) development agency jointly announced January 29 a COP$209 billion (US$74 million) investment in building new schools in Medellin. The private-sector winners of concession bids to build and maintain the new buildings will enter into “public-private association”

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Medellin’s First-Ever Congress of Junior Ornithology Students: Impressive Growth, Wider Appreciation

Medellin Herald April 24, 2018

Just as Medellin pioneered the development of Colombian wild-bird study and conservation via the founding of Sociedad Antioqueña de Ornitologia (SAO) nearly 35 years ago, now the city can boast of hosting the first-ever congress of junior ornithology students. In the April 19 event at Medellin’s Colegio Montessori, some 70 students from four local schools […]

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Top Bilingual Primary Schools in Metro Medellin Now Offer Ornithology Studies

Medellin Herald August 3, 2017

Bird-watching in decades past may have been considered the province of biologists and eccentrics. But it’s becoming an ever-more-popular pathway for appreciating, enjoying and defending the incredible beauty of nature. Now, two of metro-Medellin’s top bilingual prep schools – Colegio Theodoro Hertzl (CTH, see earlier Medellin Herald report on 08/24/2015) and

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Medellin Bilingual Student Wins Cambridge University’s ‘Top in the World’ Award — for English

Medellin Herald September 7, 2016

Medellin eleventh-grade student Veronica Escobar Mesa won Cambridge University’s “Top in the World” award for English proficiency in the “International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE)” examinations recently. Escobar — a student at Medellin’s Colegio Marymount all-girls’ school (one of the top bilingual prep-schools in metro Medellin) – received the

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Best 75 Schools in Antioquia, Medellin Unveiled in Annual Study

Medellin Herald November 9, 2015

The just-released annual study conducted by Colombia-based Sapiens Research Group (SRG) finds that 75 schools in Antioquia — 32 of which are in Medellin — are among the best of the more than 13,000 schools examined in Colombia. Among the top 75 in Antioquia are bilingual schools including Colegio Montessori, Colegio Marymount, Colegio Aleman, Colegio Theodoro

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Argos, EAFIT Debut Technology Research Center in Medellin

Medellin Herald August 26, 2015

EAFIT university and Colombia-based cement producer, power generator and port developer Argos announced August 26 the start-up of “Argos Center,” a new, US$9 million, 4,800-square-meters research facility at the university’s main campus in Medellin. The center – built with “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design” (LEED) certification in mind — will house