Overview
- The regulation covers 88 nonprofit institutions, granting access to public budgets, government funding calls, and partnerships with state entities.
- It creates a National Council of Community Higher Education Institutions to coordinate and integrate the sector.
- Community institutions offer 4,975 courses with about 1.86 million vacancies and roughly 512,000 enrollments, concentrated in Rio Grande do Sul, Sao Paulo, and Santa Catarina.
- Education Minister Camilo Santana also introduced annual evaluations for medical programs to strengthen quality oversight following recent Enamed results and rapid private expansion from 2016 to 2022.
- AGU minister Jorge Messias attended the ceremony, while his Supreme Court nomination remains pending with documentation in the SAJ as the government awaits Congress to resume on February 2.