This week’s current event is about Brazil’s national high
school exam, which is like the American SAT for a levels in the UK. The end of
high school exam has seen major improvements but has come under some scrutiny due
to attendance levels, disruptions and leaked questions. In Brazil, 5.8 million
people registered for the exam, but 28% failed to attend nationally. The
Ministry of education was all universities to used exam as a standard entrance
qualification test. Universities have not taken this option up, but federal
universities use the ENEM exam scores. Brazil’s biggest promise for education,
they have the six largest economy in the world. Brazil the struggling with the
room shortage of skilled professionals, the federal government estimates that
Brazil’s oil fills will need 250,000 new professionals through 2016. The reason
why Brazil believes that the students are not taking the exam’s because they
are having second thoughts about attending a university. The space universities
are limited, said by the education minister. It has been limited further for
many white middle-class students after 50% quota was introduced earlier in 2012
to increase the number University students from poor backgrounds. This is
stirred a great debate nationwide because it limits the local people from
furthering their education. Education Minister hailed Brazil’s handling of the
exam – the second-biggest exam of this type in the world at the China. They
have recently reported that 20% of 18 to 25-year-olds in Brazil are officially
classified as neither studying, nor working or looking for work, or doing so
outside the official system. 65 candidates were expelled from the exam hall
over the two days for uploading messages and images of exam onto social
networks. Brazil’s government said they are monitoring systems that would
improve and that the exam is not yet perfect. This year’s exam was more difficult
than previous years, after a number of complaints. The test was simply for
University purposes. The ENEM tests candidate’s range of disciplines, including
science, math and language. They are expected this year’s results, December 28.
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