Posted January 26, 2025 at 08:53. / Modified January 26, 2025 at 08:54.
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It is a college that nothing predisposed to concentrate media attention, and yet. 126 years old, the school “without a way” definitively closed its doors a few weeks ago. Contrary to appearances, we are neither in Switzerland nor in France, but in Colombia, more precisely in the heart of Usaquén, one of the most posh districts in Bogota. The announcement of the closure via a press release last June made a stir in the country, but it hardly surprised those who attended the college. “When I graduated in 2015, the decline was already noticeable. The teachers were going. The number of students decreased. We even went from an exclusively female establishment to a mixed establishment, but the flame has not revived, “said Juanita Castillo, a former student of” without “in BBC Mundo.
If this great private institution of the capital which has stopped its activities just before Christmas – traditionally marking the end of the school year in Colombia – is at the heart of the news, it is because it is added to the Long list of school closures across the country. In total, 769 private colleges disappeared in a single year, as the oldest daily life reveals in The spectator On the database of the Ministry of National Education.
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