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Program · ProUni

University for All Program (ProUni)

Problem
Offer of scholarships in private higher education.
Who it serves
Brazilians without a higher education degree with monthly per capita family income of up to 1.5 minimum wages (full scholarship) or up to 3 minimum wages (partial scholarships), according to the criteria of the law.
How it works
Created by Provisional Measure No. 213/2004, converted into Law No. 11,096/2005, under the management of the Ministry of Education. Private higher education institutions that join by signing an adhesion agreement grant full and partial scholarships (of 50% or 25%, in the original wording) and, during the term of the agreement, are exempt from taxes and contributions, among them the IRPJ and the CSLL; since Law No. 12,431/2011, the exemption is calculated in proportion to the effective occupation of the scholarships owed. The student is pre-selected through Enem or MEC criteria and selected in the final stage by the institution.

Education

Relation to the Lula governments

Created under Lula · First term (2003 to 2006) · since September 2004

ProUni was established by Provisional Measure No. 213 of September 10, 2004, signed by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Antonio Palocci Filho, and Tarso Genro, under the management of the Ministry of Education, to grant full and partial scholarships at private higher education institutions.[1]

MP 213/2004 was converted into Law No. 11,096 of January 13, 2005, signed into law by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, which establishes ProUni and regulates the activities of charitable social assistance entities in higher education.[2]

Law 11,096/2005 exempts an institution that joins ProUni, during the term of the adhesion agreement, from taxes and contributions, among them the Corporate Income Tax (IRPJ) and the Social Contribution on Net Profit (CSLL); the exemption applies to the profit or revenue arising from higher education activities and, since Law No. 12,431 of 2011, is calculated in proportion to the effective occupation of the scholarships owed. In the original wording, a for-profit institution, or a non-profit institution that is not charitable, joins by adhesion agreement and offers at least one full scholarship for the equivalent of 10.7 regularly paying students or, alternatively, one full scholarship for every 22 regularly paying students, provided that it additionally offers partial scholarships.[3]

Origin and precursors

Origin milestone: founding legal act, First term (2003 to 2006).

ProUni was established by Provisional Measure No. 213 of September 10, 2004, signed by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Antonio Palocci Filho, and Tarso Genro, under the management of the Ministry of Education, to grant full and partial scholarships at private higher education institutions.[1]

Precursors

  • Free-provision regime of philanthropic institutions earlier legal basis According to Interministerial Statement No. 061/2004/MEC/MF, under the legislation in force, charitable private higher education institutions are not subject to payment of the employer contribution, provided that they offer 20% (twenty percent) of their revenue in free services; in the proposed provisional measure, charitable status is tied to offering full scholarships to 10% (ten percent) of regularly enrolled students and to allocating at least 20% (twenty percent) of revenue to free services.[4]
  • Fies (linked by the law, no succession) similar initiative, no succession stated by the source Law No. 11,096 of January 13, 2005, provides that private-law institutions that join ProUni or adopt the rules for selecting scholarship students referred to in art. 11 of this Law will have priority in the distribution of the resources available in the Higher Education Student Financing Fund (FIES).[5]

Precursor investigation: new structure established (October 13, 2026).

Scope: Rules and statements of reasons at the Planalto, publications of the ministries and oversight bodies, searches recorded in the dossier (research of October 13, 2026). No source relates ProUni to Crédito Educativo.

Responsibilities

  • MEC, Federal Revenue Service and educational institutions federal management

    Under Law 11,096/2005, the student is pre-selected through Enem or MEC criteria and selected in the final stage by the institution; the MEC applies penalties for noncompliance with the adhesion agreement; the Federal Revenue Secretariat regulates the exemption; and an interministerial group (MEC, Finance, and Social Security) monitors tax collection and forgone tax revenue.[6]

  • National Congress (PL 3,582/2004 and conversion of the MP) legislative approval

    According to Interministerial Statement 061/2004, ProUni was originally submitted to Congress through Bill No. 3,582, in May 2004; MP 213 incorporated, in whole or in part, practically all of the amendments suggested, from all parties. Law 11,096/2005, the conversion of the MP, was enacted by the National Congress.[7]

Timeline

Timeline of University for All Program (ProUni)
DatePhaseWhat happened
September 10, 2004Legal actProvisional Measure 213 establishes the program.[1]
January 13, 2005Legal actConversion of the MP into Law 11,096.[2]

What was established

In the original wording of Law 11,096/2005, ProUni grants full scholarships and partial scholarships of 50% or 25%.[8]

Law 11,096/2005 established that a higher education institution can be considered a charitable social assistance entity only if it offers at least one full scholarship for every 9 paying students, in addition to the other legal requirements.[9]

How it works

Law 11,180/2005, in the original wording of art. 11, authorized a permanence grant (bolsa-permanência) of up to R$300.00 per month, exclusively to cover educational expenses, for a student with a ProUni full scholarship enrolled in a full-time course.[10]

Who it serves

Under Law 11,096/2005, the ProUni full scholarship is granted to Brazilians without a higher education degree with monthly per capita family income of up to 1.5 minimum wages; the partial scholarships of 50% or 25% go to those with monthly per capita family income of up to 3 minimum wages.[11]

In the original wording of art. 2 of Law 11,096/2005, the ProUni scholarship is intended for students who completed high school in full at a public school or at a private institution as a full scholarship holder, for students with disabilities, and for public school teachers in teacher-training, normal superior, and pedagogy courses, the latter regardless of income.[12]

Budget and spending

Figures are nominal unless stated otherwise. Announced, authorized, committed, liquidated and paid amounts are different things and appear with the type indicated. In SIOP lines, "paid" means paid within the same fiscal year (arrears settled later are not counted), and one budget action can fund more than one program: the text says when the action is only part of a program.

In SIOP, nominal values: in 2006, action 0A12 (Granting of Permanence Grants in Higher Education) had an authorized appropriation (law plus credits) of R$7,789,954, commitment of R$3,561,600, liquidation of R$3,561,600, and payment in the fiscal year of R$3,561,000; in 2010, it had an authorized appropriation (law plus credits) of R$23,440,400, commitment of R$15,904,500, liquidation of R$15,904,500, and payment in the fiscal year of R$15,796,163.[13]

Technical Note (No. 26/2021) of the Budget Consultancy of the Chamber of Deputies reports that the execution of ProUni entails forgone revenue estimated annually by the Federal Revenue Service of Brazil and presents the estimated tax expenditure of the program, in values updated to 2021 by the IPCA (criterion of Constitutional Amendment No. 95/2016), of R$0.465 billion in 2006 and R$0.917 billion in 2010.[14]

Impact evaluations

Evaluations with a causal design are flagged; association is not proof of effect.

According to the audit evaluating the results of ProUni, decided in Ruling 2043/2010-Plenary of the TCU (Pythagoras Project), which used propensity score matching and regression discontinuity, at least 30% of beneficiaries would not have been able to access higher education without the program; among quota students, about 38%. The vote itself notes that the results vary depending on the parameters, with 30% being the minimum positive impact found.[15]

In the same audit (Ruling 2043/2010-Plenary), the dropout rate of full scholarship holders was on average 8 percentage points lower than that of partial scholarship holders, a comparison made between the two groups because there were no data on a control group; on the Enade, there was a performance difference in favor of scholarship holders among entering students, but among graduating students the difference attributable to scholarship status was not significant.[16]

Audits

In Ruling 816/2009-Plenary (operational audit of ProUni and Fies), the rapporteur's vote recorded that the vacancy rate of scholarships rose from 14.8% of the supply in 2005 to 21.3% in 2006, 35.5% in 2007, and 42% in the 2nd semester of 2008, and that the MEC had no routine for verifying the accuracy of the information provided by the institutions; the Minister of Education contested the calculation, stating that the forgone tax revenue was overestimated and the occupancy rate underestimated.[17]

In Report No. 35 on the Evaluation of the Execution of Government Programs (March 2015), the CGU found that 12.0% of the 1,889 scholarship holders analyzed (approved in the 1st semester of 2010) failed to prove at least one of the criteria of schooling, residence, or income, and that, according to SESu data, the idle rate of the scholarships offered was 22% in 2012.[18]

According to a note in TCU Journal No. 114, a TCU audit of ProUni and Fies found that, in the second semester of 2008, 42% of the places were not filled; the report also points out that the Ministry of Education (MEC) has no routine for inspecting the participating educational institutions. Minister José Jorge was the rapporteur of the case.[19]

What remains to be documented

  • Impact evaluations: The vote in Ruling 2043/2010-Plenary (impact analysis of ProUni) was not obtained in a downloadable document.
  • Audits: Full text of Ruling 816/2009-Plenary (vote and MEC submission) not obtained as a PDF.

Sources and evidence

Excerpts are quoted in the original language of the source.

  1. 1. ProUni was established by Provisional Measure No. 213 of September 10, 2004, signed by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Antonio Palocci Filho, and Tarso Genro, under the management of the Ministry of Education, to grant full and partial scholarships at private higher education institutions.

    • Medida Provisória nº 213, de 10 de setembro de 2004 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 1, caput (text struck through on the Planalto site). Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “Art. 1º Fica instituído, sob a gestão do Ministério da Educação, o Programa Universidade para Todos - PROUNI, destinado à concessão de bolsas de estudo integrais e bolsas de estudo parciais de cinqüenta por cento (meia-bolsa) para cursos de graduação e seqüenciais de formação específica, em instituições privadas”
    • Medida Provisória nº 213, de 10 de setembro de 2004 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: closing and signatures. Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “Brasília, 10 de setembro de 2004; 183º da Independência e 116º da República. LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA Antonio Palocci Filho Tarso Genro”

  2. 2. MP 213/2004 was converted into Law No. 11,096 of January 13, 2005, signed into law by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, which establishes ProUni and regulates the activities of charitable social assistance entities in higher education.

    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: header and summary. Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “LEI Nº 11.096, DE 13 DE JANEIRO DE 2005. Mensagem de veto Regulamento Conversão da MPv nº 213, de 2004 [...] Institui o Programa Universidade para Todos - PROUNI, regula a atuação de entidades beneficentes de assistência social no ensino superior; altera a Lei nº 10.891, de 9 de julho de 2004”
    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: closing and signatures. Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “Brasília, 13 de janeiro de 2005; 184º da Independência e 117º da República. LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA Antonio Palocci Filho Tarso Genro”

  3. 3. Law 11,096/2005 exempts an institution that joins ProUni, during the term of the adhesion agreement, from taxes and contributions, among them the Corporate Income Tax (IRPJ) and the Social Contribution on Net Profit (CSLL); the exemption applies to the profit or revenue arising from higher education activities and, since Law No. 12,431 of 2011, is calculated in proportion to the effective occupation of the scholarships owed. In the original wording, a for-profit institution, or a non-profit institution that is not charitable, joins by adhesion agreement and offers at least one full scholarship for the equivalent of 10.7 regularly paying students or, alternatively, one full scholarship for every 22 regularly paying students, provided that it additionally offers partial scholarships.

    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 8, caput. Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “Art. 8º A instituição que aderir ao Prouni ficará isenta dos seguintes impostos e contribuições no período de vigência do termo de adesão:”
    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 8, items I and II. Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “I - Imposto de Renda das Pessoas Jurídicas; II - Contribuição Social sobre o Lucro Líquido, instituída pela Lei nº 7.689, de 15 de dezembro de 1988;”
    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 5, caput (original wording). Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “Art. 5º A instituição privada de ensino superior, com fins lucrativos ou sem fins lucrativos não beneficente, poderá aderir ao Prouni mediante assinatura de termo de adesão, cumprindo-lhe oferecer, no mínimo, 1 (uma) bolsa integral para o equivalente a 10,7 (dez inteiros e sete décimos) estudantes regularmente pagantes”
    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 8, § 1. Accessed October 14, 2026.
      “§ 1º A isenção de que trata o caput deste artigo recairá sobre o lucro nas hipóteses dos incisos I e II do caput deste artigo, e sobre a receita auferida, nas hipóteses dos incisos III e IV do caput deste artigo, decorrentes da realização de atividades de ensino superior, proveniente de cursos de graduação ou cursos seqüenciais de formação específica.”
    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 8, § 3. Accessed October 14, 2026.
      “§ 3º A isenção de que trata este artigo será calculada na proporção da ocupação efetiva das bolsas devidas. (Incluído pela Lei nº 12.431, de 2011).”
    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 5, § 4 (original wording). Accessed October 14, 2026.
      “§ 4º A instituição privada de ensino superior com fins lucrativos ou sem fins lucrativos não beneficente poderá, alternativamente, em substituição ao requisito previsto no caput deste artigo, oferecer 1 (uma) bolsa integral para cada 22 (vinte e dois) estudantes regularmente pagantes e devidamente matriculados em cursos efetivamente nela instalados, conforme regulamento a ser estabelecido pelo Ministério da Educação, desde que ofereça, adicionalmente, quantidade de bolsas parciais”

  4. 4. According to Interministerial Statement No. 061/2004/MEC/MF, under the legislation in force, charitable private higher education institutions are not subject to payment of the employer contribution, provided that they offer 20% (twenty percent) of their revenue in free services; in the proposed provisional measure, charitable status is tied to offering full scholarships to 10% (ten percent) of regularly enrolled students and to allocating at least 20% (twenty percent) of revenue to free services.

  5. 5. Law No. 11,096 of January 13, 2005, provides that private-law institutions that join ProUni or adopt the rules for selecting scholarship students referred to in art. 11 of this Law will have priority in the distribution of the resources available in the Higher Education Student Financing Fund (FIES).

    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 14. Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “Art. 14. Terão prioridade na distribuição dos recursos disponíveis no Fundo de Financiamento ao Estudante do Ensino Superior - FIES as instituições de direito privado que aderirem ao Prouni na forma do art. 5º desta Lei ou adotarem as regras de seleção de estudantes bolsistas a que se refere o art. 11 desta Lei.”

  6. 6. Under Law 11,096/2005, the student is pre-selected through Enem or MEC criteria and selected in the final stage by the institution; the MEC applies penalties for noncompliance with the adhesion agreement; the Federal Revenue Secretariat regulates the exemption; and an interministerial group (MEC, Finance, and Social Security) monitors tax collection and forgone tax revenue.

    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 3, caput (original wording). Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “Art. 3º O estudante a ser beneficiado pelo Prouni será pré-selecionado pelos resultados e pelo perfil socioeconômico do Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio - ENEM ou outros critérios a serem definidos pelo Ministério da Educação, e, na etapa final, selecionado pela instituição de ensino superior, segundo seus próprios critérios”
    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 9, § 1. Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “§ 1º As penas previstas no caput deste artigo serão aplicadas pelo Ministério da Educação, nos termos do disposto em regulamento, após a instauração de procedimento administrativo, assegurado o contraditório e direito de defesa.”
    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 8, § 2. Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “§ 2º A Secretaria da Receita Federal do Ministério da Fazenda disciplinará o disposto neste artigo no prazo de 30 (trinta) dias.”
    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 16, sole paragraph. Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “Parágrafo único. A evolução da arrecadação e da renúncia fiscal das instituições privadas de ensino superior será acompanhada por grupo interministerial, composto por 1 (um) representante do Ministério da Educação, 1 (um) do Ministério da Fazenda e 1 (um) do Ministério da Previdência Social”

  7. 7. According to Interministerial Statement 061/2004, ProUni was originally submitted to Congress through Bill No. 3,582, in May 2004; MP 213 incorporated, in whole or in part, practically all of the amendments suggested, from all parties. Law 11,096/2005, the conversion of the MP, was enacted by the National Congress.

  8. 8. In the original wording of Law 11,096/2005, ProUni grants full scholarships and partial scholarships of 50% or 25%.

    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 1, caput (original wording, struck through on the Planalto site). Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “destinado à concessão de bolsas de estudo integrais e bolsas de estudo parciais de 50% (cinqüenta por cento) ou de 25% (vinte e cinco por cento) para estudantes de cursos de graduação e seqüenciais de formação específica, em instituições privadas de ensino superior”

  9. 9. Law 11,096/2005 established that a higher education institution can be considered a charitable social assistance entity only if it offers at least one full scholarship for every 9 paying students, in addition to the other legal requirements.

    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 10, caput (original wording). Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “Art. 10. A instituição de ensino superior, ainda que atue no ensino básico ou em área distinta da educação, somente poderá ser considerada entidade beneficente de assistência social se oferecer, no mínimo, 1 (uma) bolsa de estudo integral para estudante de curso de graduação ou seqüencial de formação específica, sem diploma de curso superior, enquadrado no § 1º do art. 1º desta Lei, para cada 9 (nove) estudantes pagantes”

  10. 10. Law 11,180/2005, in the original wording of art. 11, authorized a permanence grant (bolsa-permanência) of up to R$300.00 per month, exclusively to cover educational expenses, for a student with a ProUni full scholarship enrolled in a full-time course.

    • Lei nº 11.180, de 23 de setembro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 11, caput (original wording, struck through on the Planalto site). Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “Fica autorizada a concessão de bolsa-permanência, no valor de até R$ 300,00 (trezentos reais) mensais, exclusivamente para custeio das despesas educacionais, a estudante beneficiário de bolsa integral do Programa Universidade para Todos - Prouni, instituído pela Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005, matriculado em curso de turno integral”

  11. 11. Under Law 11,096/2005, the ProUni full scholarship is granted to Brazilians without a higher education degree with monthly per capita family income of up to 1.5 minimum wages; the partial scholarships of 50% or 25% go to those with monthly per capita family income of up to 3 minimum wages.

    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 1, § 1. Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “A bolsa de estudo integral será concedida a brasileiros não portadores de diploma de curso superior, cuja renda familiar mensal per capita não exceda o valor de até 1 (um) salário-mínimo e 1/2 (meio).”
    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 1, § 2. Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “As bolsas de estudo parciais de 50% (cinqüenta por cento) ou de 25% (vinte e cinco por cento), cujos critérios de distribuição serão definidos em regulamento pelo Ministério da Educação, serão concedidas a brasileiros não-portadores de diploma de curso superior, cuja renda familiar mensal per capita não exceda o valor de até 3 (três) salários-mínimos”

  12. 12. In the original wording of art. 2 of Law 11,096/2005, the ProUni scholarship is intended for students who completed high school in full at a public school or at a private institution as a full scholarship holder, for students with disabilities, and for public school teachers in teacher-training, normal superior, and pedagogy courses, the latter regardless of income.

    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 2, item I (original wording, struck through on the Planalto site). Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “I - a estudante que tenha cursado o ensino médio completo em escola da rede pública ou em instituições privadas na condição de bolsista integral;”
    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 2, item II (original wording, struck through on the Planalto site). Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “II - a estudante portador de deficiência, nos termos da lei;”
    • Lei nº 11.096, de 13 de janeiro de 2005 · Presidency of the Republic (Planalto) Official legal act
      Where: art. 2, item III (original wording, struck through on the Planalto site). Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “III - a professor da rede pública de ensino, para os cursos de licenciatura, normal superior e pedagogia, destinados à formação do magistério da educação básica, independentemente da renda”

  13. 13. In SIOP, nominal values: in 2006, action 0A12 (Granting of Permanence Grants in Higher Education) had an authorized appropriation (law plus credits) of R$7,789,954, commitment of R$3,561,600, liquidation of R$3,561,600, and payment in the fiscal year of R$3,561,000; in 2010, it had an authorized appropriation (law plus credits) of R$23,440,400, commitment of R$15,904,500, liquidation of R$15,904,500, and payment in the fiscal year of R$15,796,163.

  14. 14. Technical Note (No. 26/2021) of the Budget Consultancy of the Chamber of Deputies reports that the execution of ProUni entails forgone revenue estimated annually by the Federal Revenue Service of Brazil and presents the estimated tax expenditure of the program, in values updated to 2021 by the IPCA (criterion of Constitutional Amendment No. 95/2016), of R$0.465 billion in 2006 and R$0.917 billion in 2010.

  15. 15. According to the audit evaluating the results of ProUni, decided in Ruling 2043/2010-Plenary of the TCU (Pythagoras Project), which used propensity score matching and regression discontinuity, at least 30% of beneficiaries would not have been able to access higher education without the program; among quota students, about 38%. The vote itself notes that the results vary depending on the parameters, with 30% being the minimum positive impact found.

  16. 16. In the same audit (Ruling 2043/2010-Plenary), the dropout rate of full scholarship holders was on average 8 percentage points lower than that of partial scholarship holders, a comparison made between the two groups because there were no data on a control group; on the Enade, there was a performance difference in favor of scholarship holders among entering students, but among graduating students the difference attributable to scholarship status was not significant.

  17. 17. In Ruling 816/2009-Plenary (operational audit of ProUni and Fies), the rapporteur's vote recorded that the vacancy rate of scholarships rose from 14.8% of the supply in 2005 to 21.3% in 2006, 35.5% in 2007, and 42% in the 2nd semester of 2008, and that the MEC had no routine for verifying the accuracy of the information provided by the institutions; the Minister of Education contested the calculation, stating that the forgone tax revenue was overestimated and the occupancy rate underestimated.

  18. 18. In Report No. 35 on the Evaluation of the Execution of Government Programs (March 2015), the CGU found that 12.0% of the 1,889 scholarship holders analyzed (approved in the 1st semester of 2010) failed to prove at least one of the criteria of schooling, residence, or income, and that, according to SESu data, the idle rate of the scholarships offered was 22% in 2012.

  19. 19. According to a note in TCU Journal No. 114, a TCU audit of ProUni and Fies found that, in the second semester of 2008, 42% of the places were not filled; the report also points out that the Ministry of Education (MEC) has no routine for inspecting the participating educational institutions. Minister José Jorge was the rapporteur of the case.

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