Peru schools protest changes to education rules

Hundreds of students and teachers from public and private universities across Peru on Saturday Marched in Lima against recent amendments to the standing education regulations to now allow them be autonomous from state supervision.

The amendments were passed in mid-July by a substantial majority of representatives in congress using a congress figure to override a presidential mandate by insisting their motion is worthy.

The body overseeing the universities was created in 2014 to regulate higher education and aiming to deter fraud against students who obtained non-official documents at the end of their studies.