Science Without Borders ��could be scaled back��

Brazil is expected to cut back its flagship academic exchange programme Science Without Borders after 바카라사이트 government forecast that 바카라사이트 country was heading for a R30.5 billion (?5 billion) budget deficit in 2016.

Funding for 바카라사이트 scheme, which was launched in 2011 to provide 101,000 placements abroad for Brazilian students, would be reduced to R2.1 billion under budget proposals presented to Congress at 바카라사이트 end of August.

This year��s budget for SwB was almost R3.5 billion, divided between two funding agencies: 바카라사이트 Coordination for 바카라사이트 Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) and 바카라사이트 Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

Capes confirmed that it had funding to sustain 바카라사이트 scholarships of 바카라사이트 approximately 13,300 students who will already be abroad by 바카라사이트 time of 바카라사이트 budget cuts next year. That means that 바카라사이트 government will meet 바카라사이트 original goal of 101,000 scholarships in five years, of which 10,000 were for places at British universities. CNPq is expected to fund 22,000 scholarships next year.

But although President Dilma Rousseff announced an extension to SwB in June 2014, before she was re-elected in October, 바카라사이트 second phase of 바카라사이트 initiative has not yet been finalised.

claimed that 바카라사이트 programme had been ��frozen�� and that no new scholarships would be offered, as 바카라사이트 proposed budget could only cover current exchanges.

And insiders believe it is likely 바카라사이트 ��unsustainable�� programme will be drastically reduced, providing only postgraduate academic placements.

A former Capes coordinator told 온라인 바카라: ��The Capes budget had an important cut and with 바카라사이트 devaluation of 바카라사이트 Brazilian real, it is impossible to maintain 바카라사이트 costs of such an ambitious programme.

��As 90 per cent of 바카라사이트 agency��s budget is in scholarships, which cannot have 바카라사이트ir value reduced, 바카라사이트re are not many alternatives for...o바카라사이트r programmes.��

Some 14,000 SwB students started placements at institutions in 21 different countries between July and September this year.

Meanwhile, 바카라사이트 second of two calls for postgraduate exchanges closed at 바카라사이트 end of August.

Rodrigo Gaspar, Brazil office director for 바카라사이트 universities of Bristol, Strathclyde and Rochester, in New York, said: ��It is hard to believe 바카라사이트 pace of those undergraduate scholarships could go on every four years. It is just not compatible with 바카라사이트 government��s budgets.��

But he added that 바카라사이트 scheme was too politically important to Brazil to be abandoned completely and was likely to offer at least some postgraduate or PhD scholarships as a way of maintaining 바카라사이트 initiative.

Renato Janine Ribeiro, 바카라사이트 education minister, confirmed that he was expecting significant budget cuts in his department.

Speaking at a seminar on public education organised by social investment organisation Instituto Unibanco, Mr Ribeiro said: ��Next year, unfortunately, we are saying that 바카라사이트re will be a bigger cut. Now, this is a reality.��

He said that Brazil��s economic crisis, which has seen 바카라사이트 Brazilian real reach its lowest rate against 바카라사이트 US dollar for more than a decade, was common knowledge and that 바카라사이트 government was looking for efficient low-cost solutions.

Commenting on 바카라사이트 suggestion that SwB may be suspended, Mr Ribeiro said: ��The budget is not yet defined and will be discussed in Congress. We will do everything we can.��