Students keep driving protests demanding change in Chile 0 SHARES Share it! Two similar student-driven movements over the last decade and a half led to significant but limited reforms in education policy, including lower costs for university students. It can’t be this way.”Starting with high-school students in 2006, then university students five years later, Chile has been hit by regular, large-scale protests led by young people that have won concessions from the government. High school students’ protests won discounts on public transportation and the waiver of charges for university entrance exams for most students. University students won free tuition for nearly half the students in the country, and lower interest rates on student loans.

Source: Manila Bulletin December 08, 2019 04:52 UTC