Young Graduates: Challenges and opportunities to guarantee the right to secondary education in Latin America

Organized by CAF-development bank of Latin America- and the National Public Education Administration of Uruguay (ANEP), the “Young Graduates” program allows different countries to share their experience and best practices regarding educational policies to help guarantee the right to education for youth and adolescents. 

Teachers, deans, scholars, policy makers, and civil society organizations from Latin America will meet on August 15, in Montevideo, to discuss the challenges and opportunities to guarantee the right to secondary education in Latin America. The main findings of the study titled “Policies to promote the permanence and culmination of the education in Latin America”, prepared by Results for Development (R4D) and sponsored by CAF will be presented during the seminar, in order to promote dialogue with the different guest countries. 

What are the main factors contributing to the decoupling of the secondary level educational system in Latin America? How to advance public policy in designing and implementing policies to guarantee the right to secondary education? What can we learn from experiences in Latin America? These are some of the questions posed by the seminar, which will be attended by María Julia Muñoz, Minister of Education of Uruguay, Wilson Netto, President of the Executive Council of ANEP Uruguay, Robert Francis and Mark Roland, from R4D, Miguel Székely, Director of the Center for Social and Educational Studies of Mexico, and Diana Toledo, from the OECD’s Education Policy Outlook, among other authorities and decision-makers from various countries of the region.  

Date and time: August 15, 2018 / 8:30 a.m.: 12:30 p.m.

Place: Auditorium of Torre Ejecutiva - Liniers 1324. Montevideo, Uruguay.

Event registration is required