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Today, Brazil struggles to improve the public education offered at earlier stages and maintain the high standards that the population has come to expect from public universities. The choice on public funding is an issue.
In Mexico, access to education has increased with 87% of the population today completing their primary schooling compared to 46.6% in 1980. [4] The countries of the region show wide differences in their averages and gaps in completion rates, especially at the secondary level.
The Federal Constitution of Brazil outlines the educational rights of Brazilian citizens in Title VIII, Chapter III, Section 1. [6] Education is the right of all and a duty of both the State and families, in cooperation with general society. The aim of education is defined as the full development of a person, qualification for work, and ...
Universities and higher education in Brazil. Brazil adopts a mixed system of public and privately funded universities. Public universities can be federally funded or financed by State governments (such as USP, Unicamp and Unesp in the State of São Paulo). Private schools can be for-profit or, in the case of Catholic universities, not-for-profit.
The new Brazilian secondary education is a government educational policy instituted by Federal Law No. 13,415 of 2017, based on Provisional Measure No. 746 of 2016, which caused the secondary school reform. [ Note 1] It aims to provide flexibility in the subjects taught to secondary school students in Brazil, establishing compulsory and ...
Brazil has 0.539 by the Gini index, based on 2018 data. It is among the ten most unequal countries in the world, being the only Latin American in the list where Africans appear. Brazil is more unequal than Botswana, with 0.533 according to the Gini index, a small country neighboring South Africa with just over two million inhabitants. [7]
IFET symbol. Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology (in Portuguese: Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia, IFET) is a Brazilian institution of higher education with a number of campi around Brazil. Comprising Brazil's Federal Network of Vocational, Scientific and Technological Education, it offers students a ...
This is a list of universities in Brazil, divided by states. Across the country there are more than 2,368 Brazilian universities and colleges (public and private) recognized by the MEC (Ministry of Education).