The BBC World Service, La Republica and El Comercio all initially gave startlingly low figures for the percentage passing the Ministry of Education’s requirement that teachers ‘requalify’.Less than 1%. Whilst agreeing that this percentage does not look particularly good in the world’s media and noting some of the reasons given (See next paragraph.) it is not the job of Minka – in part a voice for Peruvians abroad – to pontificate on the thorniest of Peru’s problems (which coincidentally seems to be true for many other countries including the United Kingdom): the low quality of schooling for many if not most of the population.