Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
31/03/2016
This article was translated by an automatic translation system, and was therefore not reviewed by people.
transparent image
The Ministry of Education (MEC) published today (30) in the Official Gazette (DOU) an ordinance amending fill the remaining vacancies rules of the Student Financing Fund (Fies). Now, places that were not occupied in the regular selection process will be redistributed among the other sponsor of courses, or can benefit students from other educational institutions within the same group.
Until last year, the remaining vacancies in the regular selection process should be completed in the very course they were offered by students on the waiting list. At the end of 2015, MEC had already made a change and vacancies to continue open could be distributed among the students who applied to funding in other courses of the educational institution. Now they can be distributed among the courses of the same sponsor, expanding the offer.
Survey released this week by the Union of Maintainers of Higher Education (SEMESP) shows that about 100 000 vacancies of FIES were not met this year. In total, the FIES has offered 250,279 financing 25,323 1,337 courses in private institutions of higher education in this issue.
Among the 20 courses with the highest percentage of spare places, according to the SEMESP are the undergraduate geography, philosophy, physics, biology, mathematics, letters, chemical and visual arts. Listed also are the technologist courses in port management, real estate, oil and gas, internet systems, fashion design, business management, photography and hospitality.
The FIES financing offers courses in private educational institutions at an effective interest rate of 6.5% per year. The funding percentage is defined according to the commitment of the gross monthly income per student capita. Currently, over 2.1 million students participate in the program.
Source: Agency Brazil
To access the site Agency Brazil, click here.
Our news are taken in full of our partner sites. For this reason, we can not change their content even in cases of typographical errors.
This article was translated by an automatic translation system, and was therefore not reviewed by people.