Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Confederation of Chilean Students

Student organization in Chile From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remove ads

The Confederation of Chilean Students (Spanish: Confederación de Estudiantes de Chile, CONFECH) is a student organization in Chile that congregates the student federations of universities in Chile.

It was established on October 23, 1984, in Valparaiso.[1] In 2012, CONFECH called for a march on the streets of Santiago in response to a government commissions that seven Chilean universities had been pocketing profits; over 100,000 Chilean students participated in the march.[2] CONFECH also organized student demonstrations against proposed government higher education reforms.[3]

Former CONFECH leader Gabriel Boric became president of Chile in 2022.[4]

Remove ads

Structure

The CONFECH brings together students from the universities in Chile, which are organized in democratically elected federations. It is the only student organization with a national character and it has been in existence for over ten years.

Member federations

The independent federations that form part of CONFECH include:

State universities

Private universities

Indigenous

  • FEMAE (Mapuche Student Federation)
Remove ads

See also

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads