Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
08/05/2012
This article was translated by an automatic translation system, and was therefore not reviewed by people.
Benefits of Capes and CNPq were frozen since 2008. Increase will come in two stages
The presidents of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) announced the adjustment of the value of the scholarships for master's and doctoral degrees offered by the two agencies. During the 23 ° National Congress of Post-graduate in Sao Paulo, the president of CNPq, Glaucius Oliva, said the increase will be given in two installments. The first adjustment will of10% to be paid from July.
The benefits were frozen since 2008. Currently, the value of the graduate student stipend is r$ 1300 and a doctorate, r$ 1800. According to Oliva, the second portion of the adjustment will be paid in early 2013, with a rate yet to be defined. The president of CNPq said the next increase will correct for inflation. However it did not explain the increase will cover the inflation of the period in which the bags were left without adjustment (2008-2012) or just 2012 to 2013. A spokesperson for the agency also did not confirm this information.
"There is a commitment made by our Ministers of Education and Science, Technology and Innovation, which ministries to Capes and CNPq that are bound in early 2013 we will complete this increase with inflation corrected because we will include it in the Budget Bill 2013, "explained the president of CNPq.
The National Association of Post-graduate (ANPG) claimed a 40% correction in the value of benefits. But for the president of the entity, Elisangela Lizardo, the adjustment is good news, though not fulfill the expectations of students. "We celebrate the victory of adjustment and presented immediately to our staff. Continue claiming the necessary increase in our calculation to improve the development of our research. "
In 2011 the Capes distributes 71,000 scholarships for master's and doctoral CNPq and over 20 000.
Source: Ig News
Our news are taken in full of our partner sites. For this reason, we can not change the content of these up in case of typing errors.
This article was translated by an automatic translation system, and was therefore not reviewed by people.