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Brazil invests more in education, but spending per student is still low, says OECD
September 12th, 2012 | 3h 02
ANDREI Netto, CORRESPONDENT / PARIS - The Estado de S. Paulo
The 2000s came to Brazil in the countries that invest more public funds in education in the world, but the ratio of resources per student, the precariousness of higher education and research and the doubtful quality still show the delay of the Country
These are some of the conclusions drawn from an analysis of 39 countries within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and collected in a report of 570 pages on education, published yesterday in Paris.
According to its author, between 2000 and 2009, Brazil was the nation's "most dynamic in the world", improving primary and secondary education, but worsening the top. The study, conducted by Andreas Schleicher, OECD Deputy Director for Education, is the largest annual comparative survey on the state of education in the world.
As the institution - which brings together the world's most developed countries - Brazil has made a major investment increases its budget on education during the period 2000-2009 among nations evaluated - from 10.5% to 16.8% - , making it the fourth in the rankings and surpassing the average of 13%. This result was made possible by an increase of 149% of the investment per pupil in primary and secondary education, which made the country what else raised expenditures between 2005 and 2009.
Throughout the decade, Brazil has recovered part of their investing in the educational deficit equivalent to 5.5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), although the data is still below the OECD average of 6.25%. In primary and secondary education, this percentage already exceeds the average - 4.23%, against 4%.
Deficit. The bad news focus with regard to the higher education sector in which Brazil is the fourth worst in the list with 0.8% of GDP. In the 2000s, Brazilian investment in universities fell 2% and did not follow the 67% increase in the number of students. The results are even more precarious in research and development, an area in which Brazil is the worst in a list of 36 countries, with 0.4% of GDP invested.
The problem, warns the OECD, is that higher education plays a crucial economic role in Brazil. According to the organization, the national labor market is the one with the biggest difference between who completes and who does not complete college. Besides facing lower unemployment, those with higher education earn higher wages.
For Nelson Cardoso Amaral, professor at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), the fall in investment must be seen in relation to the increase in the number of registered. "There has been an increase in gross investment, even because of the Gather (expansion program of higher education of the Lula government.) That was good, because many came to higher education. The problem is that the amounts spent were not enough to not lower value per student. This needs to be careful because we can not let the quality drop. "
Another bad news is that adding resources in education, also observed in many emerging countries, like Russia, has not eliminated the delay area. In pre-primary education, the average annual expenditure per student in Brazil was the third worst among 34 countries - U.S. $ 1,696, U.S. $ 6,670 compared to the OECD average. The same happens in the primary deficit, which the country invests U.S. $ 2,405 from U.S. $ 7,719 average, the fourth worst performance among the 35 countries assessed. The ratio is worse in secondary education, in which investment is U.S. $ 2,235 - the third worst - from U.S. $ 9,312 the average of 37 countries assessed.
Although enrollment has increased in the last decade, more than one in five Brazilians between 15 and 29 years do not attend school or have a job.
To the author of the study, data on the country reveal a contradictory scenario. If Brazil is investing more in primary and secondary education, the same does not happen in upper and research. And the improvement index is relative, because in most parameters, the country has not reached the average standard of the countries renowned for the quality of teaching.
"By registering more investment, more participation, more students in school, more people completing the training, I would say that Brazil is the most dynamic of the report," Schleicher said the State. For him, the increased investment in education is "a success."
But more money is not everything. "Improving quality is a critical point that was left behind. Ago positive indicators that the quality improves, but still need to go much further."
No comparison. For Professor Ocimar Alavarse, Faculty of Education, USP, care is needed to increase the numbers do not flag more than reality. "Unlike the European nations, Brazil still has problems such as lack of physical facilities, children out of school. Clearly, in this scenario, you need to invest more."
A fair comparison of investments, explains, will only be possible in the medium term, when Brazil achieve universal care - from kindergarten to the Education of Youth and Adults (EJA) -, basic infrastructure, such as science lab and plan teaching career. / Collaborated OCIMARA Balmant
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Aprendizado
Brazil invests more in education, but spending per student is still low, says OECD
September 12th, 2012 | 3h 02
ANDREI Netto, CORRESPONDENT / PARIS - The Estado de S. Paulo
The 2000s came to Brazil in the countries that invest more public funds in education in the world, but the ratio of resources per student, the precariousness of higher education and research and the doubtful quality still show the delay of the Country
These are some of the conclusions drawn from an analysis of 39 countries within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and collected in a report of 570 pages on education, published yesterday in Paris.
According to its author, between 2000 and 2009, Brazil was the nation's "most dynamic in the world", improving primary and secondary education, but worsening the top. The study, conducted by Andreas Schleicher, OECD Deputy Director for Education, is the largest annual comparative survey on the state of education in the world.
As the institution - which brings together the world's most developed countries - Brazil has made a major investment increases its budget on education during the period 2000-2009 among nations evaluated - from 10.5% to 16.8% - , making it the fourth in the rankings and surpassing the average of 13%. This result was made possible by an increase of 149% of the investment per pupil in primary and secondary education, which made the country what else raised expenditures between 2005 and 2009.
Throughout the decade, Brazil has recovered part of their investing in the educational deficit equivalent to 5.5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), although the data is still below the OECD average of 6.25%. In primary and secondary education, this percentage already exceeds the average - 4.23%, against 4%.
Deficit. The bad news focus with regard to the higher education sector in which Brazil is the fourth worst in the list with 0.8% of GDP. In the 2000s, Brazilian investment in universities fell 2% and did not follow the 67% increase in the number of students. The results are even more precarious in research and development, an area in which Brazil is the worst in a list of 36 countries, with 0.4% of GDP invested.
The problem, warns the OECD, is that higher education plays a crucial economic role in Brazil. According to the organization, the national labor market is the one with the biggest difference between who completes and who does not complete college. Besides facing lower unemployment, those with higher education earn higher wages.
For Nelson Cardoso Amaral, professor at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), the fall in investment must be seen in relation to the increase in the number of registered. "There has been an increase in gross investment, even because of the Gather (expansion program of higher education of the Lula government.) That was good, because many came to higher education. The problem is that the amounts spent were not enough to not lower value per student. This needs to be careful because we can not let the quality drop. "
Another bad news is that adding resources in education, also observed in many emerging countries, like Russia, has not eliminated the delay area. In pre-primary education, the average annual expenditure per student in Brazil was the third worst among 34 countries - U.S. $ 1,696, U.S. $ 6,670 compared to the OECD average. The same happens in the primary deficit, which the country invests U.S. $ 2,405 from U.S. $ 7,719 average, the fourth worst performance among the 35 countries assessed. The ratio is worse in secondary education, in which investment is U.S. $ 2,235 - the third worst - from U.S. $ 9,312 the average of 37 countries assessed.
Although enrollment has increased in the last decade, more than one in five Brazilians between 15 and 29 years do not attend school or have a job.
To the author of the study, data on the country reveal a contradictory scenario. If Brazil is investing more in primary and secondary education, the same does not happen in upper and research. And the improvement index is relative, because in most parameters, the country has not reached the average standard of the countries renowned for the quality of teaching.
"By registering more investment, more participation, more students in school, more people completing the training, I would say that Brazil is the most dynamic of the report," Schleicher said the State. For him, the increased investment in education is "a success."
But more money is not everything. "Improving quality is a critical point that was left behind. Ago positive indicators that the quality improves, but still need to go much further."
No comparison. For Professor Ocimar Alavarse, Faculty of Education, USP, care is needed to increase the numbers do not flag more than reality. "Unlike the European nations, Brazil still has problems such as lack of physical facilities, children out of school. Clearly, in this scenario, you need to invest more."
A fair comparison of investments, explains, will only be possible in the medium term, when Brazil achieve universal care - from kindergarten to the Education of Youth and Adults (EJA) -, basic infrastructure, such as science lab and plan teaching career. / Collaborated OCIMARA Balmant
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