Talk:Brazil Program/Education program/Background

Some data

Brazilian universities

• List of universities in Brazil (Portuguese)
• Top 100 (according to ARWU 2010 ranking)
• Largest universities (by number of students - 2008)
• Another interesting ranking based on Enade: Veja a lista completa das melhores universidades do Brasil (Portuguese). The top 5 are from Minas Gerais state, a place where we don't seem to have a lot of wikimedians doing offline activities. For sure USP and UNICAMP haven't participated of this ranking.

Literacy

• 38% of functional illiteracy among university students in Brazil, Estadão, July 17 2012 (Portuguese)
• Only about 25% of the Brazilian population has an adequate literacy level for reading, writing and basic math: Apenas 1 em cada 4 brasileiros domina leitura, escrita e matemática, segundo pesquisa (Portuguese)
  • From 2001 to 2011, the level of functionally illiterates and illiterates decreased from 39% to 27%.
• Map of funcional literacy around the country, G1, Sept 2012. --Ezalvarenga (talk) 12:50, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Educational level in Brazil

• Brasil fica em penúltimo lugar em ranking global de qualidade de educação. Brazil is the penultimate in a education ranking of 40 countries. --Ezalvarenga (talk) 15:01, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
• Com 'qualidade muito baixa', Brasil é o 46º em ranking de proficiência em inglês. Brazil is the 46th country in a English proficiency ranking among 54 countries. --Ezalvarenga (talk) 15:01, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
• Anything can get worst. 88th in a UNESCO ranking of education (2011). --Ezalvarenga (talk) 21:31, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Portuguese around the world

• Países africanos têm papel decisivo na afirmação do português no mundo, dizem estudiosos (Google translation) - a news on some studies reporting the importance of Portuguese in Africa. --Ezalvarenga (talk) 15:04, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Brazilian legislation

• Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional

Internet access

• Broad band Internet access doubled in one year 30 July 2012 (Portuguese)
  • 16 million+ users with a Internet speedy more than 2mbps
• Acessos em banda larga tem crescimento de 58%, Oct 2012
  • "broadband Internet has grown 58% here in the last year, where 7,7% is home Internet and 84% mobile. More than 3000 cities already have 3g Internet, achieving about 87% of the population".

Wikipedia research

• Brazil Readers Survey 2011 Findings
• Research Presentation @WikiSampa8
• Tendências e comportamento de editores
• Brazil Catalyst Project
• A Wikipédia na academia - artigos em português sobre os projetos lusófonos da Wikimedia (pt.wikipédia)
• Estatísticas da Wikipédia em português
• Editor Survey 2011