Back to school
Big efforts have been made to improve Chile’s education. Not big enough
THE centre-left governments that have run Chile for the past decade are proud of their commitment to education. Spending on education has doubled in real terms over the 1990s. Reforms have been carried out to try to ensure that poorer Chileans get better schooling. But businesses say they still find it hard to get well-educated workers. And there are signs that poor educational standards may be starting to hold back economic growth.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Back to school”
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