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How’s an Argentinian University working to include indigenous students in it’s classrooms

Since 2011, the National University of the Northeast in Resistencia, Chaco, has developed a program that promotes the entry of indigenous students into their careers: today there are 83 studying and 5 received. The latest available data indicates that in Argentina only 15% of the indigenous population between the ages of 20 and 29 accesses Higher Education, compared to 46% of the general population of the same age group throughout the country.