President amends legislation on the University for All Program

President Jair Bolsonaro signed, this Monday (6), a provisional measure (MP) that changes the University for All Program (Prouni), which grants full and partial scholarships in private colleges.

According to the General Secretariat of the Presidency, the measure seeks to expand access to private high school students who took the course with partial scholarships. The selection also includes the possibility of exempting the presentation of the document that proves the family income and the situation of people with disabilities, when the information is available in databases of government agencies.

In addition, there was a change in the reservation of quotas for blacks, indigenous peoples and people with disabilities. With the measure, the percentage of blacks, browns or indigenous people and people with disabilities will be considered in isolation, and no longer together.

The MP also provides for the inclusion of a suspension penalty imposed on those who fail to comply with the obligations assumed in the adhesion term and the readmission of the university's sponsor, punishable by disengagement.

According to the agency, the changes are intended to "expand inclusion policies in higher education, reducing idleness in the occupation of previously available places, and promoting the increase of control and integrity mechanisms and reducing bureaucracy".

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