Abstract

CHAVES, Vera Lúcia Jacob  and  AMARAL, Nelson Cardoso. Higher education in Brazil: the challenges of expansion and financing and comparisons with other countries. Rev. Educ. Questão [online]. 2015, vol.51, n.37, pp.95-120. ISSN 1981-1802.  https://doi.org/10.5965/1981180251372016095.

The article discusses the challenges that exist in Brazilian higher education to achieve more than 30% of their young people, aged between 18 and 24 years, enrolled in this educational level. We use financial data from the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira Inep, among other sources. The data indicates that there is a huge privatization of this educational level and a great diversity of institutions and courses. The financial resources invested in public education reaches 5.3% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which results in a low value per person on education age when comparisons are performed between Brazil and several selected countries.

Keywords : Higher education; Expansion; Financing.

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