BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's pick for education minister quit on Tuesday, in a storm over irregularities in his curriculum vitae just five days after he was appointed and ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. When people talk about what holds Brazil back, education tops the list (along with ...

Since the beginning of March, workers at federal education institutions have been on strike in Brazil, challenging the claim by the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers Party – ...

Sitting next to me on my flight to Toronto from Sao Paulo is a young Brazilian man, Alberto Nascimiento. He’s a little fidgety and jittery. It’s understandable: he’s leaving his country for the first ...

Tying teacher pay to student test scores. Creating public schools of choice with private operators. Setting common standards for all students. Those issues probably are familiar to any American ...

There is a link between the nation’s historically black colleges and universities and Brazil. And Florida A&M University is looking to develop and continue educational relationships with South America ...

BOSTON – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s first official visit to the United States included a stop at the Massachusetts statehouse for a business luncheon with Gov. Deval Patrick to solidify ties ...

This post is by Maria Helena Guimarães de Castro. Brazil continues to face serious problems in terms of child and youth education. These problems are reflected in the figures on educational ...

Post co-written with Luke Barbara, an American entrepreneur based in São Paulo, Brazil. Brazil’s role as a global superpower is on an upward trajectory and the country will make numerous important ...

Brazilian education platform Startse is launching a new center in Silicon Valley as part of a new global expansion push planned for the coming months. The firm, focused on training programs geared at ...

Advent International has agreed to buy Brazil-based private higher education company Faculdade da Serra Gaúcha. No financial terms were disclosed for the transaction that is expected to close in the ...

The annual XI All-Brazilian Congress of Private Higher Education (CBESP) was held on June 2018. It is a big joint event, organized by ABMES together with six other associations, representing Higher ...