Agencies admit registrations of Humanities courses in the Science without Borders

Even with the court's decision, which yesterday suspended an injunction that allowed the participation of Human Area university students in Science Without Borders (CsF), development agencies responsible for the program also allow students from all areas, including Human, to enroll in the announcement which had its term extended for the day 25 Of this month.

The decision of the Federal Court (TRF) the 5th Region did not change the blurring of picture of humanities students and also Health students who still criticize the lack of clarity in the detailed definition of the courses that can participate in the program. Criticism is focused on at least two of the priority areas by CsF: Health Sciences and Creative Industry.

Courses such as Nursing and Physiotherapy, even part of the Health Sciences, They had been excluded in the rectification made in the open tender in November last year that restricted the eligible courses. The exclusion also hit over 20 Humanities courses Area, as Communication, Cinema, Digital media and Fashion Design.

Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination of (Capes) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - responsible for the CsF - claim that the permission for students of all courses apply for the program is justified "by the technical difficulties in the registration of candidates". Earlier this month for example, students of Design and Information Systems, by system failure, They had difficulty achieving the inscriptions.

development agencies inform them, Yet, what, the end of the process, the application would be further analyzed according to the rules of the program. According to the State found, agencies have strength in defining the eligible courses, in view of the difficulty in categorizing courses as technological or non-technological.

The fact is that the release of the system is still viewed with suspicion by students. "Even managing to sign up, not give to make sure that my application, after passing the university, It will be approved by Capes ", says psychology student at the University of Brasilia Laura Percílio Santos, of 22 years.

But the uncertainty of the students lose strength before a small hope. "I got to talk to the general chief of the Science without Borders. according to her, all applications will be considered equally, taking into account the criteria adopted for notices ", says journalism student at PUC Minas, Igor Silva, of 19 years. Yesterday, he went to Capes, in Brasilia, strengthening the request for equitable analysis, especially for humanities courses that could be linked to the Creative Industry.

The concern of the university is founded. Last Friday, was published a decree allowing expressed that fit the Capes and CNPq "define the relevance of applications to various areas and themes, as the course of origin of the candidates ".

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Besides the lack of detail, students affected by the decision still criticize the exclusion of Humanities and Social Sciences courses with a strong relationship with technology, as Audiovisual, Animation and Digital Media Film, when linked to the Creative Industry area.

Positioning endorsed by industry experts as Creative Rodrigo Cintra, Coordinator of International Relations course at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM).

"I think a government mistake to ignore the humanities area courses have different dynamics. To the total exclusion of these courses, Creative Economy is decreased ", Cintra says.

Other side

consulted, the Ministry of Education (GUY) It states that "the court's decision is clear: registration is by area, not worth the Humanities. Alone are worth the priority areas of the program, facing the basic sciences: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, the areas of engineering, technological and health sciences ".The folder also said that" Brazil has one of the highest per capita of psychologists and lawyers ".

View similar to Gustavo Baldwin, Executive Secretary of the National Association of Directors of Federal Institutions of Higher Education (Andifes) - an organization that represents the federal universities. "The Science without Borders is not a welfare program, to have quotas. In other notices of other development agencies, inclusive, the amount of grants for Humanities is up to four times higher than the technology. "

Understand the case

Although the main focus of the Science Without Borders - student exchange program of the federal government - is the technological area, the first call of the program, held last year, Humanities University were awarded. They won scholarship for the Creative Industry area.

Like this, the second call participating students, open in November, were claiming that the applications were judged in the same way as it did in the first stage - when architecture students, Communication Arts and managed scholarships. But the government decided to spread the gap and published in November a correction restricting courses. The change was the central subject of legal dispute.

The state of Sao Paulo, 17 January 2013.

Source: http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/vidae,agencies-admit-inscriptions-of-the-human-courses-in-science without borders,985178,0.htm