INTERNATIONAL LEARNING
HIGHER EDUCATION –WHAT THE US CAN LEARN FROM BRAZIL
by Timothy B. Loomer
RICH IN NATURAL RESOURCES AND BOASTING A STRONG CURRENCY, Brazil is currently undergoing a socioeconomic revolution. With a growing middle class and a nascent but rapidly growing education system, not only is Brazil learning from the United States’ various education policies over the past several decades, it is also carving out an extremely effective, career-oriented higher education model. Te question that should be asked now is: Can the United States learn from Brazil?
What is Brazil doing right that America can learn from? #1–Investing in Education
Access and social inclusion in higher education are among the Brazilian government’s top pri- orities, with investments and subsidies going to both the public and private sectors. In fact, 18 percent of tax revenues are earmarked for education, with 70 percent of that going to higher ed-
ucation. Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has created the National Program of Access to Technical Education and Employment (Pronatec), which will put R$1 billion ($636 million) toward technical education for approx- imately eight million people in the next four years. To spur the growth of private-sector higher education, the government introduced the ProUni (University for All) program in 2005. Te program offers tax exemptions to private nonprofit and proprietary institutions which then grant scholarships to low-income and minority stu- dents. From 2005 to 2007, almost half the ProUni scholarship recipients chose proprietary institutions, with 72 percent of those students taking classes in the evening9 students.
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