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March 2006
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Written by Cristovam Buarque
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Thursday, 09 March 2006 09:46 |
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For a long time now Brazil has paid for scholarships so that university graduates could continue studying instead of entering the job market immediately. In 2005 the Brazilian government allocated 540 million reais (US$ 250 million) - and it should have spent more - to finance scholarships for Brazilian graduate students to study in Brazil or abroad. Inspired by this, the idea of the Bolsa-Escola, or School Stipend, was born in 1987 at the University of Brasília.
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