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Policies for Evaluation and Regulation of Higher Education in Brazil (1995-2010), Supporting the Expansion of Private Higher Education
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Barreyro, Gladys Beatriz; Rothen, José Carlos; Santana, Andréia da Cunha Malheiros – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2014
This paper analyzes the routes of the evaluation of higher education in Brazil, from 1995 until 2010. In 1995, during Fernando Henrique Cardoso's administration, higher education began a process of expansion through private enterprise. At that time, evaluation had a key role. The focus was the evaluation of courses conducted by the Ministry of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, College Administration
The Hybridization of Distance Learning in Brazil: An Approach Imposed by Culture.
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Litto, Fredric Michael – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2002
Higher education institutions in Brazil are seriously behind in the use of distance education largely because of the highly centralized control by the Ministry of Education. Hybridization, or the combination of face-to-face and distance learning techniques, is not motivated by pedagogical choice, but rather the only legally permitted approach in…
Descriptors: Centralization, Cultural Differences, Distance Education, Federal Regulation
Government and Higher Education Relationships across Three Continents: The Winds of Change. Issues in Higher Education Series, Volume 2.
Neave, Guy, Ed.; van Vught, Frans A., Ed. – 1994
This volume collects several case studies on the relationship between government and higher education in developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In particular these studies ask whether specific forms of government regulation help to solve the crisis of higher education in the developing world better than other forms of regulation.…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Change, Federal Regulation, Foreign Countries