ECONOMY
Escola Viva is the local Executive’s main action in the area and, in 2016, were inaugurated four structures from the project, in Serra, Ecoporanga, Muniz Freire and Cachoeiro de Itapemirim. These units merge to the one which was opened in the previous year in São Pedro neighborhood, in Vitória, the pioneer in modality. The goal is to concretize 10 more schools with this profile in 2017 and other 15 in 2018, resulting 30 in Paulo Hartung governor’s last administration year. Among the State’s four great measures in education is also Sedu Digital, an accessible platform for studies, exercises and student’s pedagogical orientation and which has started being offered last February. There’s also Programa Jovens de Futuro, planning methodology and unity management, which in 2017 should reach all the 290 high school colleges. The measure list fills itself with activities involving teacher’s qualification, the increase of families’s engagement into the young scholar’s life and socioemotional competence development “The education in Brazil some decades ago had the challenge of offering schools for all, something it’s practically accomplished. The great challenge of the moment is improving the learning quality. Sedu’s actions focus is precisely this: what the public network’s teachers and managers can do so that the student learns more”, concludes Haroldo Rocha.
PRIVATE EDUCATION In the private sector, basic education in Espírito Santo is provided by 364 institutions, which in 2016 held 130 thousand enrollments in 5.329 classes, employing 6,4 thousands teachers and 4,6 thousands administrative staff. While in higher education were 115 thousand enrollments in 454 courses in 78 institutions involving the professional performance of 4,8 thousand teachers and 5,8 administrative staff. The data is from the State’s Private Teaching Companies Union (Sinepe-ES). The assessment from the body’s president, Antônio Eugênio Cunha, is that the private education sector has too been suffering from the financial crisis’ effects as the example of what is occurring in other areas. “We have had a reduction in the number of students and we are also facing evasion. Default nas grown going back to 2008 levels where it was at 11,2% in basic education and 10,8% in higher education. These indicators have fell down during the course of time, they came to stay around 6% but a 90 days measurement of 2016 shown that we are having a default of 12% in basic education and 10,4% in higher education”, he reveals. Despite the crisis, the effort is to maintain commitments to providers without delaying worker’s payments, but there may be layoffs if there is not an improvement in the economic picture. “The crisis has meant that families had to revise their budgets. 224
With the fall of the wage purchasing power, due to high inflation and the loss of jobs, people are enrolling their children in cheaper schools and, in the case of families who have lost their ability to pay, opting for public school”, argues Cunha.
SESI-ES AND SENAI-ES Findes System has two great educationalist platforms, Sesi-ES and Senai-ES. Sesi-ES services consist in early childhood education, elementary school, high school and education for youngsters and adults. They are offered in 11 units, eight in Grande Vitória and three in the interior – in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Colatina and Linhares. In 2016, the entity has accomplished, until August, 10.639 registers, from a total of 11.444 offered vacancies this year. Its staff is composed by 444 people, among teachers and technical staff. In the professional formation area, there are 10 educational units in Espírito Santo, from which nine are fixed (Vitória, Vila Velha, Serra, Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Colatina, Linhares, São Mateus, Anchieta and Aracruz) and one Integrated Centre for Mobile Actions, which allows the assistance to all the State on manpower offer in 18 industrial areas, like food and drink, civil construction, metal mechanics, electronics, information technology, oil and gas, among others. in 2016, until August, there were more than 55 thousand registers, 6 thousand in mid-level technical courses; the prediction is to end the year with more than 79 thousand. Ten scholar directors, 30 learning specialists, and 245 instructors integrate the technical team. According to the Thematic Council for Education (Conedu)’s president from the Federation of Industries from the State of Espírito Santo (Findes), Luciano Raizer Moura, Senai-ES’s performance in professional education contributed to the local development, guaranteeing the youngsters the conditions to insert themselves in society through work. “Whoever goes to Senai-ES’s high school learns to have a profession by his/her insertion in an ambient similar to the industrial’s. With its gratuity policies, devoted to the community, a low-income person who didn’t have opportunities to study in a good school has access to a high level formation offered by Senai-ES”, adds Luciano Raizer Moura. Finally, the manager estimates that both Sesi and Senai have modern equipments and laboratories, conquest he attributes to Marcos Guerra’s administration. “Senai’s course offers has grown a lot, in a planned and organized way. It contributes to the competitivity because, in addition to being a decisive factor to any company, it still helps in attracting new investments to the State, since the existence of qualified labor is an essential point including to the productivity”, he concludes. YEARBOOK IEL 200 LARGEST COMPANIES 2016