Tag: students
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – More than eight million candidates signed up for Brazil’s National Secondary Education Examination (Enem) over the weekend but records show that only 5.8 million actually took the tests. This year’s...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The Ministry of Education in Brazil has announced that it is postponing the National Secondary Education Examination (ENEM), scheduled for this Saturday, in 304 locations due to occupations of schools...
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The same as the government did for the Olympics, thousands of students from Rio state schools will have the opportunity to watch the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, which will be...
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Organizers say that over 10,000 protesters came together yesterday, March 2nd, to demonstrate against the financial plan proposed by Governor Luiz Fernando, nicknamed "Pezão" (Bigfoot). The budget-cutting measures in...
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Students from The British School, Rio de Janeiro have recently completed a course in the month of November aimed at engaging in social development causes in Brazil. The class...
By Michela DellaMonica, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL — With its three impressive campuses in Macaé, Gávea and Barra da Tijuca, a new qualified and motivated headmaster, the American School, or Escola Americana do Rio de Janeiro (EARJ), is...
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – After the recesso branco, where parliament continued functioning but no votes were held, lawmakers now have a long list of crucial votes ahead of them on bills prioritized in the wave...
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff sanctioned on Monday the long-debated "Youth Statute" of rights concerning the country’s 15-to-29-year-olds, which grants half-price access for students and poor young people to cultural and...
Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Having already opined that “it’s not about the R$0,20” the Curmudgeon now realizes it’s mostly about getting “half price” on everything. Half price entry to cultural and sporting events is...
By Fiona Hurrell, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The British School, Rio de Janeiro has always placed great importance on the need to support and cultivate local charities while producing socially aware and well-rounded individuals. Recently, they...
