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Colombian education has low enrollment rates, little investment and priority from different governments, and high rates of lack of trained teachers and illiteracy.
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A constitutional reform is carried out that incorporates educational standards, guaranteeing freedom of education under the inspection and surveillance of the State, and establishes that primary education will be free in State schools and compulsory to the extent indicated by law. -
The Colombian government asked the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) to analyze the Colombian economy. In response, economist Lauchlin Currie was commissioned to do so, and revealed problems with educational coverage. -
The enrollment rate and the number of schools are increasing, and the number of teachers is growing. But there are still problems with coverage, quality and training.
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The Colombian government asked the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris to analyze the Colombian reality (social and human development). In response, the French human economist and priest Louis-Joseph Lebret was commissioned to do so, and revealed the deficiency of educational establishments and the gap between rural and urban education. -
The Minister of Education, Dr. Gabriel Betancur Mejía, proposes a way to organize the comprehensive planning of the Colombian educational service, unifying primary school into 5 free and compulsory years in both urban and rural areas, and dividing secondary education into 2 cycles, one for guidance and the other for higher education. -
The right to education is ratified as a mandatory, accessible right aimed at full human development, enabling individuals to participate effectively in a free society and fostering understanding, tolerance, and friendship among nations and all human groups. -
The Colombian government asked the International Labor Organization (ILO) analyze Colombia's labor and employment situation. They revealed and highlighted the poor training of teachers. -
The Colombian Federation of Educators (FECODE, in Spanish) promotes a pedagogical, democratic and popular movement at the national level, where an educational alternative was formulated that gave more autonomy to teaching practice, allowing teachers be part of pedagogical projects and the construction of the Institutional Educational Project (IEP), allowing the formation of true citizens. -
The National Constituent Assembly promulgates the replacement of the 1886 Constitution, the 1991 Constitution, establishing that education is a right of the people and a public service with a social function. -
On February 8, 1994, Law 115 was issued, establishing the general rules to regulate the Public Education Service, defining its purposes, structures, modalities of attention and its financing.