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Weekly Report - 15 December 2011 (WR-11-50)
BRAZIL: ‘Knowledge without Frontiers’
Brazil aims to send 101,000 graduate students to foreign universities on one-year scholarships between 2012 and 2015 under a widely anticipated new US$2bn programme entitled ‘Knowledge without Frontiers’. The initiative was devised by President Dilma Rousseff, who in her 2010 election campaign stressed an urgent need to boost Brazil’s abysmal education standards in order to sustain economic growth and global competitiveness. It is a steep uphill challenge. Even as the president this week officially announced the first 12,500 places under the new foreign study scheme, the federal government-funded Institute of Applied Economics (Ipea) pointed out that current and planned education expenditure is wholly insufficient to reach the Rousseff administration’s own education targets.
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