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engineering students in 2011. Brazil is the only country where compulsory national exams are applied to last year tertiary … education students. This sets a unique opportunity to model student achievement on tertiary education as a function of …, and well-designed teaching-and-learning plans seem to be particularly relevant for industrial students. In average …
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performance of Engineering graduating students on standardized tests administrated by the federal government. The evolution of …
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and loans for students heading for the private sector and the heavy investment on the lower levels of education, as a way …
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Fundamental education is mainly provided by municipalities according to a decentralized model in which local management transforms resources transferred by the federal government into educational results that are centrally monitored. This mode of operation is conducive to the evaluation of...
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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...
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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 occurred especially in public universities and in the...
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used to estimate the numbers of higher education students without internet access at home. Given that 98% are connected to … students does not suffice, but it is a necessary and first-order condition to make ERT and blended learning possible at the … lack of internet access at home among university students. As the estimates suggest, that is too small a problem to justify …
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sustainability in financing higher education students in an increasing number of countries. This paper simulates alternative ICL …
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This study investigates the pattern of overeducation among Brazilian graduates between 1980 and 2010. Making use of information from the last four population censuses, estimates show that changes in workers' demographic characteristics and shifts in the workers' distribution across fields of...
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This document intends to contribute to the broader debate about the evaluation and quantification of South-South Cooperation, as advanced in numerous international instruments, such as the Buenos Aires Plan of Action Plus 40 (BAPA+40). The analysis revolves around four South-South Cooperation...
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