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Education in Chile

Tuesday, 24 May 2011 06:26 Posted by Clau Llamin 1 comments

Education in Chile is in crisis. This is evident in the quality of many institutions of higher education, little access to system most vulnerable, over-indebtedness the families of students, generating profit - out of the law - by many private institutions are some of the demands required of the government of Mr. Piñera, are resolved.

The main problem is the nonexistence of the right to education and the false assurance that higher education serves as a real tool of social mobility, and in this sense, it is not faithfully contributing to national development in the areas cultural, social, political and economic.

Solutions: -Equitable access, quality, integration and heterogeneity social in enrollment, this means rejecting the PSU, as this only detected socioeconomic status.

-Restructuring the system of scholarships and student aid for end the system based on debt of the student's families. Ensure that scholarships for students who fail to be in the second quintile, ie remaining in the third quintile, can cover all its university fees and the following quintiles can be a differential pay according to their ability to pay. Besides, the maintenance and feeding scholarship should be adjusted according to reality national.

-Demand the right to participation of all triestamental Higher education institutions in the election of officers and in making decisions.

This is not just a problem for students, but the entire society, because there is nofuture without quality public education.

For this we need to inform, mobilize. Become aware of what it means QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION.

Felines frisky: the science of why cats roll

Tuesday, 3 May 2011 18:18 Posted by Clau Llamin 1 comments

“Both male and female cats display rolling behaviour, researchers report, usually in the context of mating”

Domestics cat ROLL, this behavior caught the attention of scientists because is a often perform, so in 1994 Hilary N Feldman conducted a formal study on this behavior called “Domestics cats and Passive submission”. In this study Feldman center in roll and spent six month observing cats in kept in a large outdoor enclosure.

Feldman defined the concept of “Rolling” like "involved an individual cat rolling onto its back, with forepaws held cocked, often with the legs splayed and abdomen exposed in response front of another cat in the majority of cases (79%).

But this study focused only in adult cats and specific that kitten behavior wasn’t examined.

Over the course of the half year Feldman was concluded that this conduct “had a obvious recipient”, because females rolled mostly while they were in heat, rolled also exclusively for adult males. For the other hand, males rolled “throughout the year” and this activity was directed toward other males.

Young males rolled toward adults, but the reverse almost never happened, so this suggesting to Feldman that “rolling may act as passive submission and inhibits the development of overt aggression".

In summary: "Rolling behaviour in domestic cats appears to have two functions. Females roll primarily in the presence of adult males, demonstrating a readiness to mate". But "males roll near adult males as a form of subordinate behaviour" and may have relevance for a similar behavior between pets and their owners.

From:http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/feb/07/cat-mating-behaviour-improbable-research

My faculty :)

Saturday, 30 April 2011 19:12 Posted by Clau Llamin 1 comments

Today i'll talk about my faculty.

I study in the best university of my country, the University of Chile, but this is a state university, that means is more cheap compared with the private universities, but the teachers are the best.

My Uni, like it is a state university, has many problems in infrastructure, problems that I can't explain, because is cheaper than a private university, but still has a high annual fee with which could make many improvements.

If I administrate the money of my university and specially of my faculty I improve in first place the class rooms, because are very narrow and have bad acoustic, then buy better sound equipment with good speakers and microphone. Also reduce the number of student per room and hire more teachers for take the same classes simultaneously (because now in some classes my course is divide in two and take the same class in different days).

Now in terms of infrastructure I would create more toilets, because my faculty has a very large extent and only have three bathing areas for all students and would implement better supply of toilet paper and soap.

In class materials needed best examples of cadavers in anatomy since there are quite damaged if not completely destroyed. Improvements are needed also in labs, in terms of new machinery, and highest number of these.

In hygienic terms, my faculty has many animals, so many flies too, and bad smells that should be controlled better, so I hire more cleaning staff because the existing doesn’t rough with many tasks.

So as you can see my university doesn’t stand out for having the best tools, but excels in something more important for me that is the formation of the best professionals in my country and for being one of the best universities worldwide, and then despite material weaknesses, I am studying in the right place.

Greece !!! :)

Tuesday, 19 April 2011 08:59 Posted by Clau Llamin 1 comments

If i had to choose a country that i would like to visit, it is Greece !!!. It has so many history, i love that, i like learn about other cultures, specialy when are cultures significant in the human development. Greeks are one of the most important civilization around the world. They left, histories, policy, documentaries, greats philosophers, infrastructures, language, and the most interesting is that they still living, they currently remain.

I would like to visit archaeological sites, museums, went all over the city, streets, beaches; with blue water, gardens and of course taste gastronomy. I would love visit Athens; the historical capital of Europe, the Acropolis, temple of Olympian Zeu, Parthenon temple, Greek islands. Oh ,my God, there are so many places to visit, i think that i have to begin saved money !!!, a lot of money. Someday when a finished my carreer, i will visit Greece, it will be my objective.

Miss: thank you for let us dream !!! lalala :)

Public Transportation

Monday, 18 April 2011 21:26 Posted by Clau Llamin 1 comments

Transantiago it is the public transportation in Santiago of Chile Since 2006. Before the transantiago, we had in the city the "yellow busses" The new transport it was supposed to came to repair the shortcomings of the previous. Unfortunately it wasn't, because there were a lot of misinformation on the part of users on the one hand, and on the other hand, the system itself was awful. The project could have started better if they had organized. But it has slowly been improving.

In my opinion, the current system is better than before or is progressing better than the old. Firstly: It was implemented a card payment system, which makes it more efficient due to the card has a chip that allows travel on the same passage in a period of 3 hours and also be used in the subway.
Secondly: There are fewer thefts, because drivers don't handle money. Third: Drivers earn a steady income and they don't have to "run" by the passengers. Before it was common to see buses running at full speed through the streets of Santiago. Finally, it have implemented best bus stops where there is information to know the routes of bus lines (trunk and feeder).

About my experience in the Transantiago, I must say that IN GENERAL has been good. Obviously when it started I didn't like so much as most of the people. But now I learned to "move" on the new public transport, I must say most of the time it works fine, have increased the frequency of the routes, drivers comply with the bus stops, there are modern busses that can transport people with different physical disabilities for example.

To finish, still remains to be done, but is on track. For example, in the sense of time travel by bus, because many people prefer to travel by subway instead of bus because of the speed. Need to improve the lightning. The issue of the "graffitis" on the bus stops and inside to the busses, it should have a campaign to increase awareness of the people in the care of the most important transportation in Chile.

My kitten :)

Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:13 Posted by Clau Llamin 2 comments

This time i'm talk about my favorite pet, well my only one pet :( lol :). Almendra, a cat.

One day, my older sister (teacher) brought her, because a colleague's cat of she, had a big litter and she saw to Almendra, and she felt in love :). As you can imagine, in first place, the kitty belongs to her, but she never bought her food !!!, and when the last year she left my parent's house, she can't took the cat to her new home (is a building). And because of that we stayed with her in part, and on the other hand, because my parents and i ,really really love her.

I adore my cat, even she's so touchy. Is the angriest pet i ever met !!! But she gives peace, happiness, tenderness, and sometimes wild life to my home ! She's a princess :)

Almendra has 4 years old, has almond-eyed. She was spayed when she was 1 year old and right now is a happy pet, of course. So, spay/neuter your pets !!! Conscience !

I would like have many pets, but my mom does`nt want :( . I like dogs, birds, hedgehog, snake (joke), etc, etc. :)

The last year...

Tuesday, 29 March 2011 10:26 Posted by Clau Llamin 3 comments

The 2010 was exhausting !!! in all sense !!! I mean, the academic year was a little bit aweful, because i had so many subjects, and some were so boring D: I only failed on Chemistry :( but i do it in the Summer's semester. So, i'm fine on that. In the second semester i passed all subjects, even Bioestadistic, i believe it was the worst subject i ever had, i hated ! (in a good sense xp).

On the other hand, the best of 2010, was met a new people, new friends. They are so fun, i laughed every time. I met people so kind, with a big big heart. Right now, emotionaly i'm so fine; family, new friends, old friends and love :)

In my family life, on the one hand was so cool, because we have a new member, i have a nephew, Santiago, he is adorable (sometimes), he's 1 year old and he brought happiness to the family. And on the other hand, my mom was a bit sick all the last year, her knee it's not so fine, and i'm worried about her. I just want to see her better.

Also, i can't forget the death of my sweet doggy :( It was terrible, it was with my family and i about 12 years !!!, i really miss it, but i know it is in the heaven's dogs.

I think those were the most important memories of my life in 2010 :)