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Brazilians win medals at Int’l Mathematical Olympiad
Brazilian students are bringing a gold and four bronze medals to the country from the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.The gold medal was bagged by 17-year-old...
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Half of Brazilian teachers would not recommend job to young people
Half of all teachers in Brazil believe their occupation is undervalued and would not recommend young people to become educators, according to a survey entitled Profissão docente (“The Teaching...
View ArticleSchools on Brazil–Venezuela border overcrowded after immigration wave
Since the surge in the number of Venezuelan immigrants entering Brazil this year, schools in the border town of Pacaraima, in the northern Roraima state, have struggled to cope with overcrowded...
View ArticleOECD: Brazil increased investment in early childhood education
In the last few years, Brazil increased its investment in education aimed at children aged up to five, and ranked higher than other Latin American countries, according to Education at a Glance 2018, a...
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Brazil inks education deal with Spain
Brazil forged an agreement with Spain on the training of teachers and managers, exchange programs for students and teachers, and research in education. A memorandum of understanding was signed by...
View ArticleBrazil students take course simulating how UN operates
Approximately 40 high-school students concluded a learning project that simulated how the United Nations (UN) operates at São Paulo’s Ministro Costa Manso State School this Friday (Dec. 7). The course...
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Brazilian public school works to prevent depression, self-injury
Sarah de Aguiar was 13 years old when she started to cut herself. She would have continued to inflict injuries on herself had she not been interrupted by her mother, Weslayne de Aguiar. After promising...
View ArticleIlliteracy in Brazil sinks to 6.8% in 2018
Illiteracy was reported on the wane in Brazil. Among people aged 15 or older, the rate went from 7.2 percent in 2016 to 6.8 percent in 2018. Last year, 11.3 million people could not read or write.The...
View ArticleBrazilians spend more years studying now, study finds
The number of years Brazilians spend studying has increased. The average went from 8.9 years in 2016 to 9.3 years in 2018. Since 2016, this average has been seen to grow 0.2 a year.Among the women, the...
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Bolsonaro creates first university under his gov’t
President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday (Jul 8) signed a law creating the Federal University of North Tocantins (UFNT), based in Araguaína town, a detachment of a campus of the Federal University of...
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Brazil to have 108 civic-military schools implemented by 2023
Brazil’s Ministry of Education plans to install 108 schools in the so-called “civic-military” model across Brazil by 2023 under the National Commitment for Basic Education, an initiative unveiled in...
View ArticleBrazil teachers learn new techniques by themselves
A survey by TIC Educação, with Brazil’s Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), published this week, reveals that 92 percent of public school teachers and 86 percent of private school teachers seek on...
View ArticleBrazil wins six medals at Int’l Mathematical Olympiad
Brazil won six medals at the 60th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO 2019), held in Bath, UK, from June 11 through 12, two of which silver, and four bronze. The Brazilian delegation scored 135...
View ArticleBrazilian students take to streets for more funds in education again
Brazilian students and teachers are taking part in rallies across the country today (Aug 13) in defense of the autonomy of public universities, and against the reduction in funding for education and...
View ArticleBrazilian girl wins UN Young Champions of the Earth Award
A filtering system to purify water exclusively with solar energy has earned social entrepreneur Anna Luisa Beserra, 21, from Bahia, the Champions of the Earth Award, of the United Nations (UN)...
View ArticleBrazil to open 1.5 million slots in vocational schools by 2023
The Ministry of Education is to offer another 1.5 million slots in vocational and technological education in Brazil by 2023. The move comes as part of a program dubbed Novos Caminhos (“new ways”),...
View ArticleBudget for Brazil’s federal universities restored
Brazilian Minister Abraham Weintraub told the press Friday that (Oct 18) the budget for all of the country’s federal universities has been restored.Prior changes had done his ministry’s measures no...
View ArticleOver 95% of Brazilian children go to school: Unicef
The United Nations Children’s Fund, Unicef, today (Nov. 12) launched a study showing the impacts of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Brazilian population. The survey found that 95.3...
View ArticleBrazil to bring internet access to all urban schools
Students in urban public schools across over 5.2 thousand municipalities in Brazil are expected to be benefited from internet access. During a ceremony attended by President Jair Bolsonaro at the...
View ArticleBrazil made strides, but still ranks low on PISA
The increased number of students in school across Brazil may have played a role in the country’s mark on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), said the Organization for Economic...
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