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Brazilian universities fear Bolsonaro plan to eliminate humanities and slash public education budgets

  • Written by Renato Francisco dos Santos Paula, Professor, Universidade Federal de Goias
Brazilian universities fear Bolsonaro plan to eliminate humanities and slash public education budgets

Tens of thousands of students and professors protested nationwide on May 30 against a Jair Bolsonaro administration proposal to slash Brazil’s public education budget and starve university humanities departments of resources.

It was the second mass demonstration in two weeks against the education policies of Brazil’s divisive new...

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