This paper applies multilevel models to Brazilian's tertiary education assessment data in order to test whether some of … education students. This sets a unique opportunity to model student achievement on tertiary education as a function of …

This paper analyses the evolution of tertiary education in Brazil from 2000 to 2012, with particular focus on Science … such indicators is reported for: a) universities x other institutions offering tertiary education, classifying both types … original Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Higher education institutions classified by Carnoy et al …

In this paper we compare the Brazilian tertiary education system to the ones in five well-succeeded countries that have … promoted significant efforts to develop their higher education, using 2006 data. The results suggest trade-offs between the … education are: the promotion of efforts create an incentive mechanism similar to those present in graduate education, mainly in …

Fundamental education is mainly provided by municipalities according to a decentralized model in which local management … 2013 to estimate measures of economic efficiency of municipal basic education, which considers as input the expenditure per …

Since 2004, a complex high-stake assessment of the federal higher education system has been in operation in Brazil …. Established by law, the National Higher Education Assessment System (Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Superior - Sinaes … regulate the accreditation of higher education providers and programmes. Based on this analysis, reforms are proposed focused …

This paper describes changes that occurred in the Brazilian tertiary education system considering information from … household surveys and from administrative data collected by the Ministry of Education. A movement toward democratizing access … public universities has reached socially worse-off strata, and the public investments in tertiary education no longer …

used to estimate the numbers of higher education students without internet access at home. Given that 98% are connected to … lack of internet access at home among university students. As the estimates suggest, that is too small a problem to justify …

sustainability in financing higher education students in an increasing number of countries. This paper simulates alternative ICL … repayment rates and thresholds. This is an ex-ante evaluation of an alternative for higher education student financing in Brazil …