📋 Tender Overview
Main gateway to higher education in Brazil, is used by the Ministry of Education (MEC) to ensure equity in access to public higher education. In its 27 years of existence, the examination has been fundamental for the advancement of public policies that improve mechanisms for the distribution of vacancies in higher education, in order to better reflect the plurality of Brazilian society, such as the application of quotas () in the Unified Selection System (Sisu) and the creation of.
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The Quota Law has established guidelines and rules on entry into federal universities and institutions of the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education that offer higher education, specifically providing for the percentages of vacancies that must be filled with black, brown, indigenous and quilombola self -declared, pursuant to legislation.
Currently, all federal higher education aspects reserve at least 50% of the vacancies for students who have attended all high school in public schools (education criterion), with income for one minimum wage (socioeconomic criterion), with distribution of quotas for blacks, brown, indigenous and quilombolas (ethnic-racial criterion) and people with disabilities (inclusion criterion), according to the proportion of the proportion of the proportion of Each of these profiles in the state of the federation where the educational institution is installed, according to the last census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
Already the Bolsa Permanence Program (PBP) is an initiative, created in 2013, that helps with financial resources, primarily, indigenous and quilombola students. In 2024, the PBP became part of the. The scholarship aims to minimize social and ethnic-racial inequalities, as well as contribute to the permanence and diplomation of undergraduate students in socioeconomic vulnerability enrolled in federal higher education institutions.
In this management, the number of students served by PBP almost doubled from 8,670 fellows in 2022 to more than 17,200 in 2025. The value of the scholarship for indigenous and quilombolas was also readjusted from R 900 to R 1,400, from the beginning of 2023. Until 2026, the federal government intends to offer PBP scholarships to all indigenous students and Quilombolas with active registrations in the program.
The permanence scholarship helps us not to worry about other issues, as it allows us to fund the students basic expenses. When you get this support, it has this breath to breathe and have the strength to fulfill your mission, which is graduation, says Manuele Tuyuka, law student at the University of Brasilia (UnB).
Enem 2025 registration period ended last Friday, June 13, but those who are not exempt from the registration fee must pay by June 18 to guarantee their participation. The tests will be applied on November 9th and 16th, in the 27 Federation Units.
ENEM - EAVALIA The students school performance at the end of basic education. Over more than two decades of existence, the main gateway to higher education in Brazil, through the University for All Program (ProUni) and the Student Financing Fund (Fies), has been the main gateway.
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Public and private educational institutions also use Oenempara selecting students as a unique or complementary criterion for selection processes. Individual results are also used in the selection processes of Portuguese institutions that have an agreement with Inep to accept the grades. The agreements guarantee facilitated access to the grades of Brazilian students interested in attending higher education in Portugal.
