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Brazil reserves half of college places for minorities, poor
Tuesday October 16, 2012 06:52:49 PM,
EFE
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Rio de Janeiro: The law that sets aside half of state college places for
minorities and graduates of public high schools is paying off one
of Brazil's historical debts, President Dilma Rousseff said
Monday.
"That law helps pay off Brazil's historical debt to our poorest
young people," she said on her weekly radio program "Breakfast
with the President".
Rousseff signed the measure in August, but it only went into
effect this Monday.
"Our goal is to increase access to our universities and our state
institutions to youths from public schools, the blacks and the
Indians. These universities are among the best in the country and,
very often, students from public schools have a hard time getting
into them," Rousseff said.
The 50-percent quota will be phased-in over four years, beginning
with the 2013 freshman class, she said.
Close to half of Brazil's population consider themselves black or
of mixed-race, according the 2010 Census, and most belong to the
poorest strata of society.
Several of Brazil's state universities are regarded to be among
the best in the world.
Rousseff recalled during her program that Brazil also has a
financing policy, the University for Everyone Program, that
provides scholarships so that even the poorest students can aspire
to higher education and which has already benefited 1.1 million
students.
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