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16/04/2012
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Partnership with institutions such as Harvard, Columbia and MIT can change the face of education in Brazil
Last week, during the visit of President Rousseff to the United States, the Brazilian government signed agreements to promote exchanges of students and researchers in cutting-edge American universities such as Harvard, Columbia and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Partnerships and government incentive programs such as Science Without Borders, facilitate the entry of Brazilians in the world's best universities, but only the best will be accepted. This is what ensures Renata Moraes, Development Manager, Education Foundation, which also promotes exchanges with leading universities.
- The best student to Harvard and MIT, for example, is not necessarily the best for the USP and Unicamp. This is because, in Brazil, access to higher education is too focused on the results of tests and does not consider the social and academic life that the student had throughout life.
According to Renata, students who "kill themselves" on the eve of studying the evidence and loose gatherings with friends to pass the large vestibular in Brazil are not valued in the selection process of American universities.
- No access to college, the student must show constancy, ie, he must have distinguished themselves throughout their lives. And not only in the studies. He must be the best in all areas, including social life.
The student João Henrique de Aquino Vogel, 18, knows well the difficulties to show plurality. Young was approved at Harvard and began classes in the second half of 2012 with a scholarship of more than R$ 100,000 a year. But to get the approval needed to go beyond studies.
- One of the selection is the analysis of social life. They seek to know if the student plays an instrument, does social work, leads a group of studies. All that counts points to get into college. If only I were a good student in school, would not have gotten into Harvard.
For Diana Moreinis Nasser, leader of the Alumni Representative Committee of Columbia University, interviewing Brazilian students who want to study at the institution, considered the tenth best in the world, according to the QS Top Universities ranking, U.S. institutions are trying to fit the student profile Brazil.
- Previously, Brazil was seen as another student at Columbia, which does not necessarily make a difference to increase the level of the institution. Today, the president of the university sees the Brazilian as someone who makes a difference.
Diana says there are about five years, only three students were accepted each year in Columbia. In 2012, according to the interviewer, 15 were approved.
- Students are also understood this charge to enter the universities and are chasing to improve their education as students and as citizens.
Change in teaching
According to experts in the field of exchange such as Denis Mizne, executive director of the Lemann Foundation, the major partnerships were possible only because Brazil has developed economically to the point of arousing interest worldwide.
- Our country has entered the agenda of the world and this has generated increasing interest in academic, political and economic development of other countries. Moreover, the government has also demonstrated a proactive attitude with respect to the internationalization of the study and it also attracts those universities.
The expert said he believed that in a few years, the initiative to promote the exchange of qualified students will change the dynamics of education in the country
- Students who pass the knowledge of the structure of the leading universities, with their laboratories and art with the best professionals in each area working as teachers, will no longer accept a university that is not intimately connected with the labor market, encouraging the growth of science and technology. Unfortunately, the Brazilian institutions are very closed in their academic environment. It does not exist in the U.S..
To Mizne, the number of Brazilians who will go abroad can also affect the basic education.
- The country is sending the best students for exchange programs, but also need to ensure that future exchange students are able to compete with students from other countries that have invested in education, such as China, Korea and India. Our students have left school without even learning math and these, unfortunately, will not be accepted at major universities. I need to change the basis of education.
Source: R7 News
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