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Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Brazil

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Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions

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Structure of higher education; Expansion; Financing; Trends

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The structure and organization of higher education system and institutions in Brazil.

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In Brazil, the introduction of a higher education system occurred later than elsewhere in the Americas, where the first universities were already established in the sixteenth century. Brazil remained a Portuguese colony until 1822, and formal education was the responsibility of Jesuits dedicated to the Christianization of indigenous peoples and to the education of children from the dominant class in royal schools.

King D. João VI took the first initiatives in higher education during the period that the Portuguese royal family, escaping Napoleon’s invasion, took up residence in Brazil (1808–1820). After 1808, higher education institutions were established in Rio de Janeiro (military engineering, medicine), Salvador (medicine), and Recife and São Paulo (law). The system of higher education implanted by the...

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  1. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Clarissa Eckert Baeta Neves

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  2. CIPES, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Pedro Teixeira

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Neves, C.E.B. (2017). Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Brazil. In: Shin, J., Teixeira, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_401-1

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