📋 Tender Overview
Sanctioned in 2012, the Quota Law turned 13 on Friday, August 29. The norm, which has expanded access to higher education by historically vulnerable populations, is the result of a historical struggle of social movements. Over time, these actors have teamed up with researchers, parliamentarians and control bodies to ensure that, in due time, their revision were effective to improve it.
Thus, in 2016, students with disabilities were included in the target audience of politics, and later in 2023, with the support of articulation of the Ministry of Education (MEC) with the National Congress, through the Secretariat of Continuing Education, Youth and Adult Literacy, Diversity and Inclusion (Secadi), the law was updated.
The main change brought by the new quota law was in the mechanism of entry - in the previous order, the shareholder competed only to reserved vacancies, even if he had sufficient score to be approved in wide competition. Now, first, the notes are observed by the wide competition and, later, the reserves of vacancies for quotas.
In addition, vacancies reserved in a subcota that are not filled are passed on to another subcota and, later, to the places of students from public school. Other research, in addition to the census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), are now used to calculate the proportion of shareholders by units of the Federation.
As a consequence, in 2025, the Unified Selection System (Sisu) had 26,515 candidates with profile of quotes approved in ample competition, a significant increase - of 124% - compared to 11,806 approved in 2024. The approval of quota holders with sufficient grade to entered higher education by the wide competition and expanded the access of students benefited by the quota policy.
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Other advances were the determination that policy beneficiary audiences have priority to receive student assistance and that the family income criterion per person is reduced to a minimum wage in the reserve of vacancies by socioeconomic criterion. Affirmative policies also valued for quilombola and graduate students.
The annual monitoring of the law and its evaluation every ten years was also improved, with the inclusion of other bodies, besides the MEC, as responsible for the monitoring of policy: the Ministry of Racial Equality; the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship; the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples; and the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic.
APPLICATIONS - Currently, all federal higher education asstatures reserve at least 50% of places for students who have attended all high school in public schools (education criterion); with lace capitade up to a minimum wage (socioeconomic criterion); with distribution of quotas to blacks, brown, indigenous and quilombolas (ethnic-racial criterion); and for people with disabilities (inclusion criterion), according to the proportion of each of these profiles in the state of the federation where the educational institution is installed.
However, in addition to legal determinations, MEC has also been working to expand the access and permanence of the target students of policy through programs and actions to promote educational equity.
Main door to higher education in Brazil, the National High School (Enem) and UNEXAME is being used for mecpara to ensure equity to the superior education. In its 27 years of existence, the exam has been fundamental for the public publicness of the other than the mechanisms for the discrimination of the Higher Education, and the plurality of the Brazilian society, such as the enclosure of the creation of the creation of the.
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In 2025, the MEC launched and the. CPOP guarantees technical and financial support for the preparation of the studently vulnerable student that seek to enter higher education, especially through Enem. The Quota Law was the basis for defining the target audience of the initiative.
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Already left iFofertales and activities focused on the recovery of learning of students of the 9th grade tonsinophundal, also based on the Quota Law for the framing of their audience. The preparation aims to approve high school integrated technical courses offered by the Federal Institutes, the Federal Centers of Technological Education (CEFETs) and the Pedro II College, institutions that make up the federal network.
MEC Communication Advisory, with information from Secadi
