In an attempt to start a broader national debate on the state of education in Nicaragua and the direction the country needs to go to better prepare its students for the future, civil activist groups Nicaragua 2.0 is organizing an...

Keiser University, a U.S. non-profit educational institution serving 18,000 students on 15 Florida campuses, at overseas facilities, and online, will be assuming operational and educational control of Nicaragua’s Ave Maria University as of July 1. In what university officials are...

One hundred and twenty-five university students graduated yesterday with business and technical degrees thanks to support from USAID’s Enterprise and Employment program and the Victoria Foundation, an institution that promotes technical education in Nicaragua. The 85 business graduates received scholarships...

Editor’s note, March 21: UNH Dean Neil Vroman’s response to this article has been added at the end. After leading more than a 150 university students on a dozen service projects to Nicaragua, University of New Hampshire (UNH) professor Pamela...

The Sandinista government is turning to its old comrade Cuba for help rebuilding Nicaragua’s underperforming education system. A delegation from Cuba’s Ministry of Education arrived in Nicaragua on Monday to conduct a two-week evaluation of Nicaragua’s public school system to...

The students of Managua’s Pierre & Marie Curie high school are stargazing more than usual these days thanks to the recent inauguration of Latin America’s first academic observatory, named in honor of U.S. moonwalker Neil Armstrong. The observatory, which houses...

  (posted Jan. 28, 3:30 p.m.)- Less than 20% of high school graduates passed the basic admissions test to enroll in National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) in Managua, according to a report published today in La Prensa. Isabel Benavides,...

(Posted Jan. 22, 4:40 p.m.)- The Government of Japan is donating $122,400 to the Nicaraguan-American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) to construct a new school in the impoverished neighborhood of Sutiava, León. The donation, presented today by Japanese Ambassador Masaharu Sato,...

The results of inadequate spending on public education were again lay bare this week when a jaw-dropping 94% of recent Nicaraguan high school graduates failed the basic entrance exam for the National University of Engineering (UNI). According to the UNI’s...

Nicaragua’s public education system—already the most underfunded and underperforming in Central America—will maintain its worst-in-class performance record in 2013, thanks to another paltry budget designation by the National Assembly, critics say. The ruling Sandinista Front doesn’t see it that way....