{"id":20707,"date":"2020-04-16T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p089kqfc"},"modified":"2020-04-16T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T12:45:00","slug":"chile-an-education-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/04\/16\/chile-an-education-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile: An education for all"},"content":{"rendered":"A much anticipated referendum in Chile on a new constitution has been postponed till the autumn amid safety concerns over the spread of the coronavirus. President Sebastian Pi\u00f1era had agreed to the vote and a range of reforms following months of civil unrest. Since last autumn, the country has been experiencing a wave of protests with people on the streets angry at the level of inequality in the country. Amongst them thousands of university students, teachers and school children \u2013 who have been prepared to face tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets \u2013 in a bid to change the education system in Chile. They say a privileged few have access to all the best jobs and the rest are given a substandard schooling with leaky roofs in winter, boiling hot classrooms in summer and inadequate teaching. For Assignment, Jane Chambers spent time with the protestors calling for a fairer education for all. \n\nPresented and produced by Jane Chambers \nEdited by Bridget Harney \n\n(Image: A demonstrator kicks a tear gas canister at a police car during a protest about the education system in Chile. Credit: Reuters\/Ivan Alvarado)\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p089kqfc\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A much anticipated referendum in Chile on a new constitution has been postponed till the autumn amid safety concerns over the spread of the coronavirus. President Sebastian Pi\u00f1era had agreed to the vote and a range of reforms following months of civil &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598613,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707\/revisions\/1598613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}