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LAS PIEDRAS, Uruguay (AFP) - A laptop is now finding its place alongside a notebook and pen in schoolbags in Uruguay, the first and only country to offer an Internet-connected computers to all public primary school students.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- A Socialist former guerrilla fighter known for speaking his mind emerged the clear winner of Sunday's election for president of Uruguay but did not muster enough votes to avoid a November runoff, in what...
Uruguay has become the first country to provide a laptop for every child attending state primary school. The "Plan Ceibal" (Education Connect) project has allowed many families access to the world of computers and the internet...
Uruguay has become the first country to provide a laptop for every child attending state primary school. President Tabaré Vázquez presented the final XO model laptops to pupils at a school in Montevideo on 13 October. Over the...
MONTEVIDEO, Oct 15 (IPS) - Fabián Rodríguez has two years to go on a long sentence for robbery. After spending time in three overcrowded maximum security prisons in Uruguay, he finally landed in a rehabilitation centre where...
MONTEVIDEO, (Sep. 3, 2009) IPS/GIN - Nilda Barboza gets up at 3:00 AM every day to make it on time to her new job in an upscale neighbourhood in the Uruguayan capital. She is one of tens of thousands of people no longer among...
Colonia (Agenzia Fides) – After having traveled through Chile and Argentina, on Tuesday, September 8, the relics reached Uruguay in a boat that made its way up the Rio de la Plata of Colonia. Waiting to receive them was Bishop...
MONTEVIDEO, Sep 3 (IPS) - Nilda Barboza gets up at 3:00 AM every day to make it on time to her new job in an upscale neighbourhood in the Uruguayan capital from her home in an outlying area. But she does so with a sense of...
From Algeria to Uruguay, schools are waking up to international partnerships. See how these low-cost programs are yielding big results Preschoolers in Michigan are learning to speak Mandarin in language-immersion classes run by...
CIUDAD DE LA COSTA, Uruguay, Jul 1 (IPS) - "A road used to run through here, the sidewalk was over there, and this was the neighbour’s yard. That was an esplanade where people parked their cars, and that area over there was a...
