COLOMBIA: IFC funds to promote education for low-income students

By Leah Germain The World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) is investing US$8 million into Colombia's private higher education sector to promote affordable technical and professional education for the country's low and middle-income students. The funds will help finance the private Colombian university, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto). The private not-for-profit educational institution Uniminuto began operations in 1992 with 240 students and today more than 20,000 students are enrolled in the university. But with new funding ...


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