The 2021 Brazilian College Entrance Exam Exposes Inequality and Setbacks in Education [OPINION]
The administration of Brazil’s standard college entrance examination, the National High School Exam (ENEM), in January and February 2021, is the most explicit manifestation of what the dominant groups in Brazil will never accept peacefully: the advance in the democratization of higher education, however incipient. In the midst of the pandemic, without in-person classes throughout practically the whole year of 2020, the administration of the exam will take place despite the Postpone the Enem campaign led by the National Union of Students (UNE) and the Brazilian Union of Secondary School Students (UBES) clamoring “for a safe ENEM without inequalities.”