Klaus Hart Brasilientexte

Wie Barack Obama den Tropenstaat Brasilien bewertet: “Brasilien ist eine beispielhafte Demokratie. Dieses Land ist nicht länger das Land der Zukunft – die Menschen in Brasilien sollten wissen, daß die Zukunft gekommen ist, sie ist hier, jetzt”.

QUALIFICATIONS OF BRAZILIAN PROFESSIONALS

Frei Betto

 Hopefully Congress will approve applying 10% of the GDP for education. It is not much, but much better than the present 4.5%. Another way, other than  significant investment in quality education, has not yet been discovered for developing a nation, increasing its Human Development Index and reducing exclusion, poverty and violence. Our country has a contingent of 92.5 million people in the work force, practically half the population. Of these, 45.5% are not registered or are self employed. According to the IBGE – PNAD 2011 (Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics – National Survey by Sample Household – 2011), only 771,409 have a Masters or a PhD. Only 12.5% of those who work are university graduates. Almost all manual labour workers finished high school: 46.8%, i.e. 53.2% of our workers did not even finish high school. Our universities today have 6.6 million students (of a contingent of 27.3 million young people between 18 and 25 years of age!). Of these 73.2% are in private universities. There are only 1.2 million doing technical courses. In Germany which is the world’s fourth economy, most middle school students (60%) are in technical courses. Education is a training ground, made easier by partnerships between schools and business which train apprentices. This reflects in the country’s economy. Last August unemployment amongst German youths under 25 reached 8.1%. In other Eurozone countries it reached 22.8%. Family income is associated with education level. In Brazil those who have a university diploma earn 167% more than those who only finish high school.

http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2012/12/02/brasilien-lula-vorm-auftritt-auf-dem-ig-metall-kongres-in-berlin-macht-er-zuhause-taglich-schlagzeilen-wegen-eines-neuen-regierungs-korruptionsskandals/

http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2012/11/30/ig-metall-ladt-lula-zu-festveranstaltung-anfang-dezember-nach-berlin-ein-vom-armenhaus-zur-boomregion-lateinamerikas/

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