President cuts federal science budget by 90 percent. Researchers fear a brain drain.
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Nov 11, 2021
President cuts federal science budget by 90 percent. Researchers fear a brain drain.
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May 8, 2020
Education minister suggests those who do will get more money.
May 6, 2019
In the past 10 days, new president has proposed defunding philosophy and sociology departments and announced ideologically motivated cuts to federal university budgets.
November 26, 2018
Campuses have been stormed by military police. Students are being encouraged to report on instructors.
October 11, 2018
Academics fear lack of support for research and for free expression.
November 13, 2017
Outside a conference she helped organize, the noted philosopher and gender theorist was burned (as a witch) in effigy. She describes the opposition and the experience of being attacked in this way.
December 3, 2015
A controversial question is both praised and criticized, drawing attention to the powerful role of a single test.
June 16, 2015
Amid enrollment and revenue declines at home, American for-profit education companies have looked abroad, including to Brazil. But can -- and should -- Brazil's boom in proprietary education continue?
June 8, 2015
University in Brazil, acting at behest of pro-Palestinian groups, sought to compile information about students or employees from Israel on its campus.
March 26, 2015
In impoverished part of Rio, struggles to get a branch campus that the government pledged to build there.