CGHE Webinar

Evolving contours and challenges of private higher education in Brazil

Date: Tuesday, 1 April 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: All times GMT. Teams, registration required
Speaker(s):
  • Professor Eliana Martorano Amaral, Universidade de Campinas
  • Professor Flávio Carvalhães, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Jonathan Williams , German Centre for Higher Education and Science Studies (DZHW)

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The Brazilian higher education system is exceptional in several regards. In Trow’s parlance, it has preserved an elite public university system, albeit one with widening efforts to enhance inclusion of students of lower socioeconomic status. Massification has been delegated almost entirely to the private sector, which enrolls some three-quarters of students. Private higher education is predominantly demand-absorbing in the framework of Levy (2024), unusually so within Latin America. A group of conglomerates now enroll millions of students across the country, following a process of financialization notably over the past twenty years. Private higher education has also shifted massively to online learning, such that now the majority of students in Brazilian higher education study online. The panel would firstly discuss the concentration of private sector provision in Brazil and its increasing emphasis on online learning. It will secondly consider quality concerns and policy responses, focusing on the special case of exceptional growth in Medicine undergraduate education, with Brazil’s 400 medical schools second only to India. Insights from Brazil should shed light on similar policy concerns in other jurisdictions.

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