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06/03/2014
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RIO - The Ministry of Education ( MEC ) has changed this year some rules of the University for All Program ( ProUni ) and Student Financing Fund ( FIES ) . In Fies , the contract shall be married to the Guarantee Fund for Education Loans ( Fgeduc ) before optional. In ProUni , the tax exemption shall be made on the basis of vacancies filled and no longer in the places offered , as it was until the end of 2013 .
The Fgeduc there since 2009 . The fund covers from 80 % of contracts not completed . For this, the sponsor pays a fee of 5.63 % on the total monthly funding , or 6.25 % of the share of financing operations . Without Fgeduc if the student stay in default, the institution paid 15 % of the value .
For students , adherence to Fgeduc makes it waived the need for a guarantor, which facilitates the recruitment of Fies . For institutions , the costs increase , but according to sector entities , both programs are still attractive . Sought , the Treasury would not comment on the impact on public accounts .
Director Fund Management and Benefits of the National Fund for Education Development ( ENDF ) , Antonio Correa Neto said that nearly half of the institutions had already joined the Fgeduc :
- With the change , almost all institutions have made adherence to Fgeduc and remained in the program . Our goal is to further democratize access to higher education to the extent that adherence favors low-income students , who have difficulty getting a cosigner .
At a meeting last month , private institutions discussed the changes . According to the executive director of the Union of Sponsoring Entities Establishments of Higher Education of the State of São Paulo ( SEMESP ) , Rodrigo Capelato , participation should not decrease .
The current scenario is as follows : on average , 17 % of students in the private hire Fies , and the bottom represents around 25 % of the revenue of the institutions . Have ProUni generates a saving on average about 10 % of their expenditure . The impact calculated by Capelato should be a reduction of 2 % or 3% of the economy, which is the percentage of unfilled vacancies .
The professor of public finance at the University of Brasilia ( UNB ) José Matias - Pereira explains the changes to the Fies may have been made to facilitate the achievement of the primary surplus target .
- The government is taking actions in order to enable the primary surplus and when they play with these funds , there is certainly a positive impact - Matias - Pereira explains . - Behind this there is a risk financing , the state appears as a guarantor . If no payment , the state has to honor the commitment . What the government is trying to remove is the responsibility of the Treasury certain items .
Capelato complements saying that the changes will allow the application more credits to Fies . According to him , the promise for this year 's $ 3 billion in new funding . Grantees should jump to 1.6 million by the end of the year . Regarding changes in ProUni , Matias - Pereira assesses :
- The government entered an uncontrolled way in this area of tax exemption and who is trying to close these taps is to prevent the collection is affected.
According to him , the institutions should have greater involvement with the offer of a school of higher quality and thus attract young people to study at their school.
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