Director´s Column

Information about Brazil, the Brazilian higher education market and developments with the point of view of Nuffic Neso Brazil´s Director, Remon Daniel Boef.

Tour through Southern Brazil - Unisinos looking for Dutch Design and UCS interested in cooperation with Dutch HE

During the Holland Today Tour, organized by the Dutch Consulate-General in São Paulo, Nuffic Neso Brazil presented Dutch higher education to the South Region of Brazil. Various new contacts were made and two universities of the South showed a...

Distance higher education in Brazil.

The number of students engaging in higher education distance programs in Brazil is rapidly growing. Between 2007 and 2008 alone (the latest year of which data available) the number of students in distance undergraduate programs almost doubled to...

Brazilian ministry of Education aims at 10 million higher education students in coming decade.

The Ministry´s goal until 2011 (2010 is the last year of the current government) was to have 30% of the total population to be enrolled or graduated in higher education. The actual number does not surpass 15%.

Brazil invests in professional and technological undergraduate education

According to the ministry of Education, the department for development and modernization, undergraduate technological programs deepen studies and solutions through applied science in professional activities. The courses take in average about 3...
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