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Enseña Chile, a programme backed by Anglo American that puts high-flying graduates in the classroom teaching some of Chile’s most vulnerable students, is achieving remarkable results. Enseña Chile selects and trains high-calibre university graduates to teach in state schools in vulnerable communities across the country. Photograph: Anglo American

Education is a hot issue in Chile.

The country is fiercely debating the best way to create the schools and universities it needs as it transitions to an economy that relies as much on the skills and talent of its people as on its natural resources.

Although classroom performance is among the best in Latin America and public spending on education has increased seven fold in the past 20 years, experts say there is a wide gap between the privately schooled rich and the majority who are too often failed by municipal education.

Faced with a student population determined to engender change itself, the current government has promised to make improvements but in the meantime, a new social programme aimed at improving education in public schools is making significant headway.

A new approach

Like the 20-year-old Teach for America on which it is based, Enseña Chile (“Teach Chile” or “Chile Teaches” in Spanish) selects and trains high-calibre university graduates in areas such as law, engineering, business administration and medicine, to teach in state schools in vulnerable communities across the country.

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