Peruvian historian Antonio Zapata leaves successful TV history series to return to academia
January 15, 2010 by Andean Air Mail & PERUVIAN TIMES · Leave a Comment
By Paul Goulder
After nine years directing a history series for national television, historian Antonio Zapata has decided it is time to go back to university to teach and do research full time.
SucediĂł en el PerĂş has been broadcast on the national television channel, Canal 7, since 2001 and has dealt with a wide range of [...]
Purloined Lung returned to Bodies Exhibition
October 10, 2009 by Andean Air Mail & PERUVIAN TIMES · Leave a Comment
The press were alerted and a $2000 reward was offered when a polymer-coated lung went missing this week at the Bodies exhibition, held at the Camacho shopping mall in La Molina. The lung was taken when the medical student on watch duty in a roomful of at least 50 visitors, was distracted by TV [...]
Peru police forcibly evacuates 200 students staging a sit-in to demand more free lunches in Lima’s San Marcos University
May 7, 2009 by anniether · Leave a Comment
Peru police armed with tear gas ousted more than 200 San Marcos National University students camped out in the dean’s office since Tuesday to demand that more free lunches to be served to low-income students.
The students, who also took two San Marcos University employees hostage for a few hours, demanded that free lunches increase from [...]
Peruvian University of Applied Science and Peruvian singer Gian Marco inaugurate music academy
April 29, 2009 by anniether · Leave a Comment
Peru’s University of Applied Science, or UPC, and Peruvian singer-songwriter Gian Marco inaugurated a professional musical academy Wednesday in the country’s capital city, Lima.
“Musical training must be complete,” said UPC’s Rector, Luis Bustamante. “We’re going to formally train not only composers and performers, but also music producers.”
Our students “will be responsible for waking up Peru’s [...]
Regional Government of Cajamarca donates 50 workstations to local university
March 21, 2009 by anniether · Leave a Comment
As part of its education program, the Regional Government of Cajamarca has donated 50 state-of-the-art computers to the National University of Cajamarca, UNC, reported daily Panorama Cajamarquino on Friday.
The donation – valued at 122,000 soles, or $38,000 – will provide UNC engineering, geology and computer science students with a better-equipped computer lab.
“Our commitment to education [...]
Andina: Peru lawmakers pledge to tackle illiteracy among blind children
March 17, 2009 by anniether · Leave a Comment
Thousands of blind children – illiterate because of the inaccessibility of Braille material – will be taught to read via the “Hands that See” campaign launched Tuesday morning by Congress’ Special Commission on Disabled People, according to state news agency Andina.
The month-long campaign, designed to raise funds for the purchase of Braille material in Brazil, [...]
New school year begins with laptops
March 3, 2008 by Andean Air Mail & PERUVIAN TIMES · Leave a Comment
Peru’s school year began today, with ambitious plans from the Ministry of Education to begin distributing laptops in state schools.
Idel Vexler, the vice-minister of Education, said that the first laptops will be distributed in different schools around the country in the coming weeks, for use by children in elementary grades within a program called [...]
GarcĂa proposes modifications to contentious education law
February 18, 2008 by Andean Air Mail & PERUVIAN TIMES · Leave a Comment
President Alan GarcĂa and Education Minister JosĂ© Antonio Chang announced Sunday changes to a contentious new education law that will prohibit public schools from hiring teachers who do not finish in the top third of their class while at University or an academic institute.
GarcĂa and Chang said they will modify Supreme Decree 004 by allowing [...]





