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January 2021
The Corporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez (Rafael Nuñez University Corporation) is both High School and Higher Education institution established on April 6, 1987. Source: http://www.curn.edu.co/la-corporacion.html
The flag's white background symbolizes peace and the aspiration of the
educational community, dedicated to the service of intelligence.
The
shield's upper left quarter features a human figure walking on a path, with the
right arm raised in the same direction, symbolizing the advance of disciplinary
knowledge in science and life.
The upper right quarter features a parchment,
used for ages to write sacred texts, books, texts and documents of significance
for knowledge, referring to the degrees granted to alumni. The green background
refers to aspiration to reach high objectives by institutional, personal and
social commitment.
The lower quarter is inscribed with the institute's
acronym and date of foundation.
The shield is bordered by spikes symbolizing
aspiration to convert the student's dreams in a genuine and true seed that will
germinate with fertility through enthusiasm , perseverance, constancy, ethics
and intelligence.
The support from which the spikes emerge symbolizes the
institution that offers to students the opportunity to convert their life
project in the real world.
https://www.curn.edu.co/13-curn/pagcorp/2822-identidadcorporativa.html#escudo
CURN website
Photos
https://www.umet.edu.ec/firma-de-convenio-umet-corporacion-universitaria-rafael-nunez
https://www.umet.edu.ec/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Convenio-con-Nuñez-13.jpg
Ivan Sache, 3 January 2021
image by Ivan Sache and
Tomislav Todorovic, 10
January 2021
Liceo Superior Rafael Pombo is located in San Gil (Santander).
The school
is named for the poet and journalist Rafael Pombo (1833-1912), mostly known for
his children books and awarded in 1905 the title of Colombia's national poet.
The flag of Liceo Superior Rafael Pombo is horizontally divided
green-red-green with a thin yellow fimbriation between the stripes.
https://lisurp.com/nosotros
School
website
Ivan Sache, 10 January 2021
According to the website, there is an additional green fimbriation
between the yellow one and the red stripe, and the flag is more
oblong, so attached herewith is a redo of Ivan's image, based on what
was seen there.
Tomislav Todorovic, 10
January 2021
"Institución Educativa 'Ramón Giraldo Ceballos'"
was founded in Medellín in 2002 (Decree No. 16,386), as the
merging of "Escuela Urbana de Varones 'Ramón Giraldo
Ceballos'" and "Escuela Urbana de Niñas 'Ramón
Giraldo Ceballos'", both founded on 30 December 1968 (Decree
No. 033) on plots offerred by Ramón Giraldo Ceballos.
The flag of the institute is described on the website
of the institute as made of two white and blue stripes of
equal size and a handshake.
White represents purity, peace and love, the values promoted by
the institute.
Blue represents the greatness of the mind in search of God.
The handshake represents solidarity, fraternity, help,
cooperation and friendship.
Ivan Sache, 12 January 2009
image by Ivan Sache, 13
September 2022
Institución Educativa Colegio Real de Mares was established in 1963 in
Barrancabemerja (department of Santander), as Concentración el Castillo, by Emma
and Carmen Guzmán. Later on, it was split into Concentración el Castillo, for
boys, and Concentración Jacqueline, for girls. In 1976, for the sake of
differentiation from the newly built Colegio Mixto Municipal el Castillo, the
school was renamed to Concentración Escolar el Castillo, to be renamed to
Institución Educativa Colegio Real de Mares in 2002.
https://realdemares.edu.co - School
website
The flag of Institución Educativa Colegio Real de Mares is
horizontally divided white-green with the school's coat of arms in the center.
Photo:
https://realdemares.edu.co/img/header/sixbox_5c9b881fb0b235.79771328.jpeg
Ivan Sache, 13 September 2022
image by Ivan Sache, 17 December 2008
"Corporación Universitaria Remington" was founded
in Medellín in 1915 by Gustavo Vásquez Betancourt (d. 1967), as
"Organización Educativa Remington". The university was
approved by the Ministry of National Education on 21 June 1996
(Decree No. 2661).
The flag of the university, as shown graphically on the university
website, is vertically divided blue-red with the university
emblem in the middle, reaching the horizontal edges of the flag.
The seal-shaped emblem of the university shows a white
"R" for "Remington" and the foundation year,
1915, on a background filled with two basic, opposed colours. Red
represents the warm passion required to teach and learn while
blue represents the cold reason required for knowledge. The rim
of the seal is white, a neutral colour, bearing the motto of the
university, "Poder estudiar, poder trabajar" ("To
study, to work"), and two fleurs-de-lis representing the
historic victory of knowledge.
Ivan Sache, 17 December 2008
images located by Esteban
Rivera, 11 April 2023
A logo flag used is a horizontal background with two colors, vertically and
equally divided into red (left) and blue (right) with the (simplified) logo in
the middle.
Sources: logo -
https://www.uniremington.edu.co/identidad-y-mision-institucional/
Obverse image -
https://www.uniremington.edu.co
Reverse image by Esteban Rivera, 27
February 2023
For additional information go to UniRemington (official website):
https://www.uniremington.edu.co/
Esteban
Rivera, 11 April 2023
image by Ivan Sache, 9 November 2010
Colegio Renán Barco, located in La Dorada (Department of Caldas), started as
Escuela Concentración Las Ferias, indeed a satellite of Colegio de Nuestra
Señora del Carmen. The institute became independent under its present name on 13
October 1994 (Decree No. 7838). On 13 February 2003 (Decree No. 191), Escuela
Concentración Las Ferias was incorporated into the institute. The institute is
named for the lawyer, economist and Liberal politician Víctor Renán Barco López
(1928-2009), Representative of Caldas (1968-1970) and Senator (1998-2009).
The symbols of Colegio Renán Barco are presented in the Decree of 21 April 1994
giving the results of the contest for the institute's coat of arms, flag and
anthem. Selected among 20 proposals, the flag, designed by María Alejandra Teuta
Castañeda is horizontally divided white-yellow by a green triangle covering the
whole width of the flag, pointing from the fly to the mid hoist. White
represents purity, sincerity, transparency, honesty, solidarity, beauty and
ardor. Yellow represents knowledge, thinking skills of the alumni, wealth and
illusion that each day will be better. Green represents hope that there will
always be a better morning to be aspired and struggled for with tenacity and
enthusiasm.
Source:
http://ierenanbarco.com/simbolos.htm
Ivan Sache, 9 November 2010
image by Ivan Sache, 03 October 2014
Institución Educativa Distrital Colegio República de Colombia was established
in Bogóta by Resolution No. 3,150 of 30 September 2002, as the merger of Colegio
República de Colombia, Escuela República de Chile, and Escuela Nueva Estrada.
The flag of the institute is white with the institute's emblem in the middle, a
red-yellow triangle in the upper left corner, and a yellow-blue-red triangle in
the lower right corner. The corners feature the flags of Bogotá and of Colombia,
respectively
The emblem of the institute is made of a disk horizontally divided
yellow-blue-red (2:1:1), superimposed by a green map of Colombia, and surrounded
by a white ring inscribed with "COLEGIO REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA" (top) and "IED"
(bottom), in black letters.
Source:
http://www.iedcolegiorepublicadecolombia.edu.co/institucional - Institute's
website
Ivan Sache, 03 October 2014
image by Ivan Sache, 11 August 2014
Institución Educativa República de Uruguay is established in Alfonso López
borough, part of the municipality of Medellín (Antioquia Department).
The flag of the institute is similar to the national flag of Uruguay, the canton
being charged here with the institute's emblem.
Source: http://ieru.8m.com/ - Institute's
gazette
The emblem of the institute features:
- a path, representing the way of the man, from the start of the education
process and the preparation to life until death, represented here by the cross;
- a torch, symbolizing fire boosting the faith of the members of the educational
community;
- a map of Colombia, representing nationhood;
- a sun, meaning brightness, light, and rectitude;
- an open book, representing knowledge;
- the green colour, representing the Antioquia Department.
Source:
http://www.ieru.edu.co/index2.php?id=5520&idmenutipo=1068&tag=col -
Institute's website
Ivan Sache, 11 August 2014
"Colegio 'Restrepo Millán'" was created in Bogotá
by National Decree No. 2940 on 24 November 1961 and approved by
the Ministry of National Education on 24 November 1962 (Decree
No. 4738); classes had already started on 5 April 1962. The
institute is named after the noted educator José María Restrepo
Millán (1894-1955).
The flag of the
institute, according to a photo shown on the website
of the institute, is horizontally divided white-green with
the emblem of the institute in the middle.
The symbols shown on PDF
files available on the website of the institute are quite
different: - the flag
is horizontally divided green-white, without the emblem; - the
emblem seems to have different colours, for instance blue instead
of green in its upper part.
Ivan Sache, 27 January 2009
image by Ivan Sache, 22 November 2018
Colegio Departamental Reyes Araque is located in Cáchira (Norte de Santander
Department).
The flag of Colegio Departamental Reyes Araque is
horizontally divided yellow-red with a white triangle placed along the hoist.
http://www.cachira.com/reyesaraque/simbolos_reyesaraque.php
School
website
Ivan Sache, 22 November 2018
image by Ivan Sache, 17 October 2014
The symbols of the institute are presented in the institute's
Etiquette Guidebook.
The flag is divided white-green according to the descending diagonal,
with the institute's emblem in the middle.
White represents peace as well as individual and social harmony, while
green represents the kindness of the cooperative sector.
The emblem of the institute, designed in 1975 by Fernando Saavedra
Francoy and Jesús María Cubillos de La Parra, represents its
philosophy, focused on education through knowledge and increase of its
values, always supported by the cooperative spirit.
Source: http://www.reyespatria.com/documentos/manualdeconvivencia.pdf
- Institute's website
Ivan Sache, 17 October 2014
image by Ivan Sache, 9 October 2018
Colegio Bilingüe Richmond (CBR) was established in Bogotá on 12 August 1989,
as Jardín Infantil Little Star, by Alicia González de Becerra.
The flag
of CBR is horizontally divided blue-white-blue with thin red-white-blue and
blue-white-red horizontal stripes at the top and bottom of the white stripes,
and the school's coat of arms and name placed in the center of the white stripe.
http://richmondschool.edu.co/el-colegio/
CBR website
Ivan Sache,
9 October 2018
Institución Educativa Rioloro was founded in 1926 in Rioloro, Gigante
(Huila).
The flag of IE Rioloro is horizontally divided blue-white-green
with the school's emblem in the center.
Blue represents knowledge.
White
represents honesty, transparency, joy and peace.
Green is a tribute to work,
to the creative power of letters, art and land cultivation, and to hope in a
better future.
Photo
https://www.facebook.com/Institución-Educativa-Rioloro-307373716058710/photos/434490453347035
Ivan Sache, 10 January 2021
image by Ivan Sache, 04 July 2011
"Escuela Normal Superior de Río de Oro" is located in Río de Oro
(Cesar Department).
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically and described on the institute's
blog, is horizontally divided white-green. The flag is a symbol of science and
virtue. White represents the way to reach peace. Green means the hope in the set
up of men and women committed to the service of the society.
Source:
http://normalsupriodeoro.blogspot.com/2009/04/simbolos-normalistas_12.html
Ivan Sache, 04 July 2011
image by Ivan Sache, 06 August 2014
Gimnasio Risaralda was established in Pereira (Risaralda Department) in 1974
by Decree No. 80, as Escuela Artesanal Femenina. The institute was transformed
in 1975 into Instituto for Promoción Social, then with 360 alumni and 12
teachers. The name of the institute was changed to Gimnasio Risaralda by Decree
No. 105 of 28 February 1977; this name was proposed by the teacher Zahir
Jaramillo de López. The institute was merged in 2006 with Escuela América Mixta
and Fundación Centro de Formación Hacia el Futuro.
The flag of the institute is horizontally divided yellow-white-blue (2:1:1).
Yellow is a symbol of hope.
White is a symbol of peace.
Blue is a symbol of purity and knowledge.
Source:
http://gimnasiorisaraldap.blogspot.fr/2009/06/simbolos-institucionales.html
Ivan Sache, 06 August 2014
image by Ivan Sache, 11 October 2018
Rivera International School was established on 31 October 1983 by Sonia
Orozco in borough La Rivera, Soledad (Atlántico Department), as Jardín Infantil
los Super Amiguitos, to be renamed Gimnasio La Rivera in 1985.
The flag
of Rivera International School is turquoise blue with a white rhomb in the
center.
Turquoise blue is a symbol of intensity, meaning that everyone should
be transcendent to impulse in his mind faith, decision and compromise with the
highest human values.
White is a symbol of purity, a virtue hardly grown in
today's man, but considered at the school as a fundamental value in the life of
a genuine Christian.
http://www.rivera.edu.co/simbolos-institucionales/
School website
Ivan Sache,
11 October 2018
