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President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) said on Wednesday (13) that Enem (National High School Exam) could be postponed due to the new coronavirus pandemic, but will have to take place in 2020.
Last week, Education Minister Abraham Weintraub said the test would not be postponed and that it was not done to correct the injustices.
“Enem, if that is the case, it takes a while, but it must be applied this year,” Bolsonaro told reporters at the door of the Alvorada Palace.
Like sheet showed on Wednesday that there is no contingency plan to carry out the Enem if the pandemic of the new coronavirus extends until November, according to Camilo Mussi, deputy president of Inep (National Institute of Studies and Research), an organ linked to the Ministry of Education and career manager. Registration for the exam started on Monday (11).
According to Mussi, MEC (Ministry of Education) and Inep have been in dialogue with the Ministry of Health so that decisions can be made. The president of the institute said that there is no possibility that Enem 2020 will be canceled and that the postponement would be detrimental to student access to the university, but confirmed that within a month there will be another meeting with the ministry to reevaluate the situation.
An Inep technical officer told the sheetOn condition of anonymity, it is the institute’s policy to create contingency plans for possible crises, but there was no specific planning related to the new coronavirus pandemic.
According to this official, there are already delays in preparing the body for the exam. The notice to hire the print shop was suspended in April after a series of questions from a print shop interested in competing. For him, if the contract with the printing company has not been signed until June, the risk of delaying Enem increases. This is because one of the services provided by the printing company is the design of the event in a safe and isolated place, a service that must be carried out in person.
The official says that the teams responsible for the race face various operational problems and that if they fail to overcome them, there may be no Enem in 2020.
