Brazil's Education Minister, Camilo Santana, has revealed plans to establish a regulatory agency dedicated to higher education in the country. With the support of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the corresponding bill should be presented to the Legislature later this year.
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The primary purpose of the regulatory agency is to promote improvements in the quality of teaching courses higher education in Brazil, providing the system with a more solid, agile and efficient structure for the supervision of these courses.
Camilo Santana highlighted the importance of monitoring higher education, mainly due to the notable expansion of Distance Learning (EaD) courses.
The new regulatory agency will also be responsible for addressing the issue of distance learning. In this context, a report has already been prepared with the purpose of establishing the requirement for a component minimum face-to-face presence in all distance learning courses, aiming to guarantee the quality and effectiveness of distance learning in the country.
Camilo Santana emphasized that the current scarcity of resources in the Ministry of Education (MEC) prevents supervision adequacy of higher education courses, especially given the notable proliferation of Distance Learning programs (EAD).
The proposal to establish a regulatory agency aims to strengthen supervision and raise the quality standards of higher education in Brazil.
This initiative focuses on addressing several fundamental issues, such as the underutilization of vacancies in higher education institutions, the improvement of professional training and the expansion of Distance Learning (EAD).
The creation of this regulatory agency represents a crucial step in efforts to optimize the educational system, ensuring that the population has access to high-caliber, relevant and quality education exceptional. This, in turn, will contribute to the educational development of the country, meeting the needs of society.
