This paper investigates students sorting in higher education in Brazil based on three merged databases: (i) the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD/IBGE), (ii) the National Exam of Student Performance (ENADE), and (iii) ...

During a recent "summit" meeting of leading Latin American higher education scholars and practitioners, key developments in Private Higher Education (PHE) became the topic of many meaningful discussions. This article reports ...

Latin American countries have been enjoying a strong growth during the 2000s for the first time since the debt crisis of the 1980s. This article focuses on some of the changes that took place during these boom years with ...

Comprehension of the disability as a social phenomenon has allowed thinking the diversity of a homogenizing model, which negates the difference as a constitutive feature of human being. This way of conceiving the disability ...

The increasing number of students with hearing impairment enrolled in higher education has become a recurring fact nowadays. This paper will discuss the achievements and advances of deaf students who use the Brazilian Sign ...

Resistance to changes in education for people with disabiliies is still a controversial topic. However, Brazilian and Mexican higher education institutions are beginning to develop actions and programs to ensure access to ...

Brazil has by far the largest higher education system in Latin America, with a sizable share of students enrolled in private-sector institutions. Its recently established and fast-growing for-profit sector is one of the ...

Objective: It addresses the importance of information for access to higher education in federal public institutions for historically excluded citizens, as an essential human action that aims to alleviate social inequalities ...

This descriptive article presents a case study of the effects of policy change on the public higher-education system in Brazil, highlighting the significant differences in the system after President Lula's election in the ...