📋 Tender Overview
The proportion of high school students enrolled in vocational and technological education programs (EPT) increased by 15.8% between 2023 and 2024 - from 15% to 17.2%, as revealed in 2024. The scenario confirms the advance of this educational modality, which combines regular high school with professional education focused on the preparation of students for the world (integrated and concomitant technical courses, performed simultaneously to high school, in different institutions). The Ministry of Education (MEC) and the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research Anisio Teixeira (Inep) presented the results of the first stage of statistical research on April 9.
In the public network, Brazil has 15.4% of high school students enrolled in vocational programs. Among the federation units, Piaui stands out, with 52.4% of the students of this educational stage that study technical education. Then are Paraiba and Espirito Santo, with 34.1% and 33.7% of students, respectively. Parana and Rio Grande do Norte have 28.5% and 23.7% of high school students also enrolled in technical education.
The Minister of State of Education, Camilo Santana, said, during the contextualization of the results of the 2024 School Census, that the folder is prioritizing that the resources invested by the states, agreed with the farm and the MEC, either to expand the enrollment of Brazilian technical education. This action, designed by the federal government in partnership with the National Congress to strengthen Professional and Technological Education (EPT), was instituted through (Propag).
The initiative creates conditions for Brazilian states and the Federal District reverses part of the interest of their debts with the Union primarily in mid -level technical vocational education enrollment, in line with the goals of the National Education Plan (PNE). The program was regulated by the federal government on Monday, April 14.
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Check out the technological axes with the largest enrollment numbers (Source: School Census 2024):
The Management and Business Technological Axis prevails, in the public network, with more than 322 thousand enrollment.
In the private network, the environment and health axis stands out, with more than 106 thousand enrollments.
In the evaluation of Ineps director of educational statistics, Carlos Eduardo Moreno, the growth of professional and technological education articulated with high school is a positive movement because it creates degrees of freedom for the future. The student can enter the job market, if this is his intention and if there is the appreciation of the course he has taken, or can enter higher education, continuing his studies, he said.
Also according to Moreno, statistics show that the immediate entry rate in higher education - just the year following the completion of basic education - for those who do high school articulated with EPT is 44%. In the case of the student who does not reconcile regular education with the technical modality, it is 26.44%. This context can be verified in the Higher Education Census.
School Census - Main Statistical Research of Basic Education, the School Census is coordinated by Inep and carried out, under collaboration, among the state and municipal education secretariats, with the participation of all public and private schools in the country. The statistical survey covers the different steps and modalities of basic education: regular education, special education, youth and adult education (EJA) and vocational and technological education.
Enrollment statistics serve as the basis for the transfer of federal government resources and the planning and dissemination of the evaluations made by Inep. The census is also a fundamental tool for educational actors to understand the educational situation of Brazil, federative units, municipalities and schools, allowing them to accompany the effectiveness of educational public policies.
This understanding is provided through a broad set of indicators that make it possible to monitor the development of Brazilian education. The Basic Education Development Index (IDEB), performance and school flow rates and age-series distortion are calculated based on the school census. Part of the indicators also serves as a reference for monitoring and compliance with PNE goals.
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