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Foundation of the University of Santo Tomás by the Dominicans, the first officially recognized university in the country. -
Comenio was the first to formulate a real pedagogical revolution and put at the centre of his reflection the need for an educational transformation. Comenio, proposed a search for didactic methodologies, which today we would call active in order to achieve meaningful learning. -
The English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) proposed that the purpose of education should be to create citizens with a peaceful civic conscience, a gentleman: "Play, practice, reasonable persuasion, non-authoritarian methods and self-government are the instruments of this pedagogy, which pursues not a variety of knowledge but freedom of thought". -
It was at that time that the great Encyclopaedia of Sciences, Arts and Crafts was written, in which an effort is made to classify and bring together in a single work the areas of knowledge accumulated by mankind. A kind of secular Bible of enlightened reason. -
Rousseau demonstrated the importance of the link between education and society, so that any instruction should be directed to a relationship with the immediate environment of the child or any student. -
The first government of Francisco de Paula Santander decreed the establishment of elementary schools for men in towns and villages with more than 100 families and the opening of a small school for men and women in each religious convent. -
Regulates levels of primary, secondary and vocational education, but maintains clerical control in primary. -
Under Colombian legislation of 1904, primary education was to be provided in rural and urban areas.
Secondary: Technical and basic -
In which 32.5% of the population aged 10 and over could read and write -
It is regulated that all children should have the right to education. -
It guarantees the freedom of education and allows the secularization of education, is marked by the influence that the church will have until the end of the eighties and beginning of the nineties -
Between 1950 and 1976 the enrolment rate increased significantly, the number of schools also increased (with greater participation by the public sector), the number of teachers grew and the teacher-pupil ratio improved -
The ICETEX is created and parameters are established for the elimination of discrimination, in addition to the division of the baccalaureate into general education and professional practices. -
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 29 October 1969.
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 29 October 1969.
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 29 October 1969. -
These treaties establish the right of all children to free and compulsory primary education; the obligation to develop secondary education, backed by measures that make it accessible to all children; and equitable access to higher education. -
It is in force and states that everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free of charge, at least as regards basic education and basic stages. Basic education shall be compulsory. Technical and vocational education should be generally accessible and access to higher education should be equal for all, on the basis of merit. -
Discipline must be imposed in such a way that it does not impair the dignity of the child and is compatible with the right to protection against all forms of violence, thereby supporting respect for the child in the educational environment -
The General Education Law, Law 115 of 8 February 1994 sets out general rules for regulating the Public Education Service which fulfils a social function; among the subjects covered by the law are: general competences of the educational community, family and society and structure of the education service. -
Decree of Law 1278, official sector
Decree 230 is created in which guidelines on the assessment of students are given -
The Yakarta Declaration was adopted, emphasizing that the right to education is an internationally recognized right in its interrelationship with the right to development and that full realization requires legal and constitutional protection of this right. -
The new system for evaluating the learning and promotion of students in basic and secondary education is announced. -
Colombia is committed to ensuring inclusive and quality education by 2030. -
Gratuitous policies in public higher education, connectivity programs (computers and TIC), differential approach for ethnic and rural communities. -
More than 1,000 schools renovated between 2023 and 2024, with improved connectivity and resources, especially in rural areas
The School Feeding Plan (EAP) benefited almost 5.9 million children and adolescents, reaching 80% coverage