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) consists of three components: the evaluation...

This text aims to analyze changes in access and the profile of the student body in higher education. The guiding line of the analysis is the participation of the black population in this educational level, concentrating the research in federal higher education, which focuses on the Higher...

This paper discusses the interruption of teaching and learning activities at Brazilian federal universities at the time the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, as well as the extent to which the lack of access to the internet would prohibit remote resumption of those activities. Political-educational...

Income contingent loans (ICLs) are a financial tool that optimizes the transactional efficiencies involved in the government monopoly in taxing personal income. It protects the borrowers against periods of low income, as instalments vary according to fluctuations in their incomes over the...

It is proposed a broad two-tier income-contingent financing system for postsecondary students, designed for public and private providers and consisting of both income-contingent loans (ICLs) and income share agreements (ISAs), with repayments to be collected by the Federal Revenue System (FRS)....