Post by account_disabled on Mar 11, 2024 9:47:34 GMT
Last week, the National Education Conference (CONAE) met in Brasília to define the proposals for a new National Education Plan (PNE) for the next 10 years. Despite not being laws, the defined guidelines caused considerable controversy, especially with regard to the reservation of vacancies and pre-salt resources.
In relation to quotas in Brazilian public universities, CONAE aims to Special Data separate 50% of places for students from the public education system, blacks and Indians. Currently, most institutions reserve, on average, 20% of their portfolios for these students. In short, if the issue of quotas is already facing negatives with current reserves, imagine with 50%.
The issue is that in Brazil public universities are still considered better than private ones. There are few paid higher education institutions that have good teachers, structure, methods, and that are not adept at “pay, pass”. In the country, the most recognized are the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) and the Getulio Vagas Foundation (FGV).
A student who spends more than 10 years of his life paying for his studies wants to get into the best colleges. And, for now, the best are the public ones. So either the government better monitors the selection criteria for private universities, or it invests in basic education, so that public school students are better able to compete with private students.
Federal universities are better because the government invests in them. Teachers are better paid and the criteria for selecting students is strict. Why doesn't the government also invest in basic education, as it used to do? The situation in public schools is depressing, teachers are poorly paid and the structure of most of them is falling apart.
The final CONAE plenary session showed awareness of this and suggested the allocation of 50% of the resources obtained from the extraction of oil from the pre-salt layer to education. Of this total, 70% would be left for states and municipalities to apply to basic education. I am completely in favor of this, but I am concerned about the misuse of funds. The CPMF, for example, should go to health, however improvements are not being seen.