📋 Tender Overview
This Tuesday, June 17, the Ministry of Education (MEC) participated in the House of Representatives, discussing objectives 11 and 12, proposed by the folder for the decade from 2024 to 2034 (). The special committee that analyzes the new plan provided a broad debate on access, permanence, conclusion and quality in vocational education, involving several actors who work in this educational modality in the country.
MECs Secretary of Professional and Technological Education, Marcelo Braganoli, detailed how the portfolio has worked to ensure the achievement of objective 11, which deals with the expansion of access and permanence in vocational and technological education (EPT), with reduced inequalities and inclusion; and objective 12, which aims to ensure the quality and adequacy of training to the demands of society, the world of work and the diversity of populations and their territories in the EPT.
In the last two years [2019 - 2024] we have, through the performance of the offeators of mid -level technical courses, to leave the level of 11.7% to 17.2% of students enrolled in this modality, said the secretary. According to him, the new PNE aims to expand the number of enrollments so that at least half the number of high school students also curs the technical education. In the quantitative aspect, we are observing the increase in youth and adult education linked to vocational and technological education and the expansion of the offer of professional qualification to improve the insertion of young people in the world of work, explained Breganoli.
Politics - In order to promote the quality guarantee of EPT, provided for in Goal 12 of the new PNE, the MEC is implementing. The initiative was instituted by and proposes the assessment of the quality of this educational modality, investments in professionals training, promotion of diagnoses that deal with the permanence of students success, as well as the use of studies conducted in technical courses in undergraduate.
Propag-The State Debt Payment Program (Propag) is also directly aligned with PNE goals (2024-2034), especially for the expansion of EPT vacancies. The initiative provides discounts on the interest on federative units with the Union, offering more advantageous conditions for states to apply part of the amounts they will no longer pay for interest in the vocational training of the population. Propag aims to generate 3.3 million vacancies, with 2.6 million in technical courses articulated to high school.
The president of the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research Anisio Teixeira (Inep), Manuel Palacios, also integrated the table of debates and reaffirmed that the school and higher education census produce robust data dealing with EPT. The conception we are taking is not to make a new census; is to complement the Census of Basic Education and the Higher Education Census so that more flexible trajectories and itineraries built for an intermediate diploma that can be properly accompanied, Palaces said.
Also attended by the hearing Davi Santos, the National Council of Secretaries of Education (Consed); Anna Beatriz Waehneldt, from the National National Commercial Learning Service (Senac); Marilza Regattieri, from the National Confederation of Industry (CNI); Diogo Jamra, from the Itau Educacao and Labor Foundation; Maria Martins, from the National Union of Federal Servants of Basic, Professional and Technological Education (Sinasefe); Heleno Araujo Filho, of the National Confederation of Education Workers (CNTE); Andre Velasques, from Paula Souza Center; Marcelo Ponciano, from the National Council of Institutions of the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education (CONIF); and Maria Ferreira, from the National Rural Learning Service (Senar).
PNE - The National Education Plan (PNE) is a strategic plan, established by law, which establishes guidelines, objectives, goals and strategies for education in Brazil over ten years, aiming to guide and promote the improvement of education quality at all levels and modalities of education. The in force PNE was instituted by the 2014/2024 decade, and extended until December 31, 2025, according to). In 2024, the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Education (MEC), sent to the National Congress the project of 2024, which proposes the National Education Plan for the next decade.
