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'We have very little hope': Brazilian scientists' despair at cuts
Ninety per cent federal funding cut will leave research projects unfinished and cause massive brain drain, experts warn
November 9, 2021
Anna McKie
Brazilian academics have said they are losing hope over the future of science in the country after another devastating blow to research funding. Many projects already under way will have to stop, and there is likely to be significant brain drain after President Jair Bolsonaro signed a bill that reduces the federal science budget by 90 per cent, experts told Times Higher Education.
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Professor Ribeiro, a former education minister, said that the budget had represented the bulk of Brazilian institutions’ research funding and that many graduates were now “looking to go abroad”.
“This government has repeatedly shown it is against education, and against science,” he said. “We are doing our best to keep up hope, we are fighting, but I am pessimistic.”
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Marcelo Knobel, professor of physics and a former rector of the University of Campinas, said that the best hope for research in the country was the end of Mr Bolsonaro’s presidency.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/we-have-very-little-hope-brazilian-scientists-despair-atcuts