The Minister of Education, Ricardo Vélez, guaranteed that public universities will not be privatized. “Public Universities are the nation's heritage. They will not be privatized. But they will be managed with total transparency, so that Brazilians know, bit by bit, how the hard-earned money that sustains these institutions is used. “Less Brasília and more Brazil!”, he wrote on Twitter.
Privatization was being pointed out as a solution to the financial crisis that these educational institutions are going through. However, the Ministry of Education (MEC) had not yet officially pronounced on the issue.
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According to the Higher Education Census, the country currently has 2,448 higher education institutions. Of these, 296 are public and 63 are federal universities, directly linked to the MEC. The public ones concentrate more than 2 million enrollments, 24.7% of the total number of university students in the country.
By the National Education Plan (PNE), the law that stipulates goals to improve the quality of Brazilian education by 2024. Brazil must include a third, that is, 33% of the population aged 18 to 24 in higher education by the end of the law. Currently, this percentage is around 23%, also considering those who have already graduated.
The gross enrollment rate, that is, the total number of enrolled students, regardless of age, must be equivalent to half of the total population aged 18 to 24 years. That percentage is about 35%. With information from Agência Brasil.
