The third conference of the “The Brazilian Crisis” cycle will welcome educator Mozart Neves Ramos, director of Articulation and Innovation at the Ayrton Senna Institute and member of the National Education Council (CNE), to discuss the topic “The Education Crisis”. The event organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies (IdEA) at Unicamp will take place in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), on October 23rd.
Recently titled professor emeritus at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), where he was a professor between 1977 and 2013 and rector during two terms (1996-1999 and 2000-2003), Mozart Ramos will address in his lecture the need to create an agenda positive and to seek alternatives as a way to overcome the crisis. “We have to act like the swordsman who fences with both arms, one to defend himself from the crisis and the other to ensure that the university does not stop”, says Mozart.
According to him, the crisis requires new mechanisms that bring Brazilian society closer to academia. The UFPE professor emeritus states that science, technology and innovation should no longer be considered as the “arrival point” of universities, but only as a “starting point” for bolder objectives, such as the concrete contribution to improving the quality of education basic.
For Mozart, it is important that the university places in a prominent position, in its development plan, tackling the quality of basic education in Brazil, especially with regard to the quality of initial and continuing teacher training. “Basic training is, in general, very precarious, far from school practice, and there is a very large fragmentation within the university itself.”
Among the problems he highlights today in Brazilian education, the former rector of UFPE cites the difficulty of meeting goal 12 of the National Education Plan (PNE), which determines guidelines, goals and strategies for educational policy between 2014 and 2024. This target specifically foresees increasing the net enrollment rate in higher education to 33% of the population aged 18 to 24. Currently, only 18% of these young people are enrolled in higher education.
Graduated in Chemical Engineering from UFPE, Mozart Ramos presided over the National Association of Directors of Federal Higher Education Institutions (Andifes) between 2002 and 2003. He was also Secretary of Education of Pernambuco (2003-2006), president of the National Council of Secretaries of Education (2006) and executive president of Todos Pela Educação (2007-2010). He is currently a member of the National Education Council, a position he also held between 2005 and 2014.
Conference Cycle “The Brazilian Crisis”
Lecturer: Mozart Neves Ramos
Theme: “The Education Crisis”
Date: 23 October 2019
Time: 10h
Location: Auditorium of the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM) at Unicamp
Address: Rua Tessália Vieira de Camargo, 126, Cidade Universitária, Campinas
Carried out: Institute of Advanced Studies (IdEA) at Unicamp
Registrations: http://www.idea.unicamp.br/eventos/educador-mozart-ramos-discute-crise-da-educacao-em-23-de-outubro
