Access to Education

Access to Education

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We offer broad geographical coverage and affordable prices with a view to enabling access to higher education for a growing number of Brazilians. Our operation in distance learning hubs enables us to reach small municipalities (light distance teaching hubs), enabling young people and adults who would otherwise not be able to look for opportunities in larger cities to take a higher education course.

Additionally:

  • Our ecosystem includes Stoodi, a start-up that offers preparatory courses for Brazil’s Enem national secondary education examination (Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio) and other university entry exams. 
  • Since 2022 we have been offering EJA DIGITAL, 100% online and aimed at students who did not complete their basic studies within the indicated school time, with places for the final years of elementary school and high school.

Presence in Municipalities1

  • 82% are small (less than 100 thousand inhabitants over 15 years old);
  • 80% have HDI below the Brazilian average. In 230 municipalities, Cogna is the only higher education institution present.

Number of municipalities in which we are the only private higher education institution1 to offer higher education courses in:

  • Pedagogy – 156
  • Mechanical Engineering – 134
  • Civil Engineering – 118
  • Nursing – 72
  • Agronomy – 41
  • Law – 18
  • Physiotherapy – 10
  • Dentistry – 9
  • Nutrition – 6
  • Medicine – 3

Access to education and employability

  • To minimize the risk of debt and income impairment, our proposal combines more affordable prices, a variety of courses and support for professional integration.

1Source: INEP — Higher Education Census.

Ongoing Training For Educators

We offer quality teaching and educational solutions that transform the realities of schools and students. For us, it is fundamental to pay special attention to those who play the most important role in the students’ learning: the teachers. This is why we have virtual environments oriented to the continuous training of teachers:

  • Our corporate university, UNICO, offers more than 500 courses that may be accessed by the teachers at our higher education institutions.  
  • Teacher Training Program (PROFS), aimed at K-9 teachers working in the schools in which we offer our educational solutions.  
  • Training for public school educators through the Saber business unit.  We develop initiatives to prepare education agents in the production of training contents and provide support in the execution of action plans.
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