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27/janeiro/2012

President of INEP announces exit from office

The president of the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research (INEP), Malvina Tuttman, issued a statement today (26), after dispatching with the new Minister of Education, Mercadante, stating that will leave office. The Ministry did not officially confirm who will replace it in the INEP.

Malvina took office in January last year. In a statement said that "lived intensely INEP" and always feel "present in every action carried out by staff of the institute." She is a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State (Unirio) and stepped down as dean to become president of the INEP, the body responsible for National Secondary Education Examination (Enem).

Since the evidence gained strength from the MEC project to replace the traditional vestibular Enem by the presidents of Inep resist short time in office.

Malvina became president of the institute to replace Joaquim Soares Neto, who was one year ahead of INEP and suffered harsh criticism after mistakes in the proof of 2010. He was not the first to leave because of Enem INEP: In 2009, Reynaldo Fernandes left the presidency of the institute after the theft of proof. The examination had to be canceled and reapplied two months later.

Source: Agency Brazil