Tag: education

Illiteracy in Brazil

Lula’s Missed Chance of Cutting Illiteracy in Half in Brazil

In the same month it was confronting its worse political and ethical crisis, the ...

Brazil Wants to Use 1/4 of Its US$ 200 Billion Foreign Debt on Education

The idea was born at an international conference in Mexico in 2004. Brazil, Argentina, ...

Brazil Needs Better Distribution of Assets, Says Unesco

At the 1st Ibero-American Congress for Sustainable Development, today, in Rio de Janeiro, the ...

Brazil Needs to Learn to Set Goals and Apologize

At the beginning of 2003, when I was Brazil’s Minister of Education, I suggested ...

Postgraduates in Brazil Are 122,295 with 9% Yearly Growth

In the past eight years the number of master’s and doctoral programs in Brazil ...

34% of Brazilian Indians Are in School

The Secretariat of Ongoing Education, Literacy Training, and Diversity (Secad) of Brazil’s Ministry of ...

Brazil Sends Teachers to East Timor

Brazilian teachers are going to help restructure education in East Timor. The Foundation for ...

Brazil Wants to Convert Foreign Debt into Education Funds

In July, at a meeting in Spain, Brazil plans to present a proposal to ...

In Brazil, Quotas and Scholarship Bring 5% More Blacks to College

The number of Afro-descendant students entering Brazilian universities in 2004 grew 5% in comparison ...

Why India Is Decades Ahead of Brazil

Besides religiosity, two things distinguish man from the other animals: walking on two legs ...