• Thiago Mata
  • Introduction
  • Education as a Platform
  • Impact
  • Tech

    • Summary

    MEC / INEP

    Position

    Process Analyst

    Summary

    We developed services for the Ministry of Education of Brazil to improve the communication, monitoring, evaluation and validation from the government to the students, schools, technical schools, universities and educational professionals.

    Project

    Introduction

    MEC / INEP

    The Ministry of Education of Brazil (MEC) is responsible for the Brazilian educational system, and the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP) is a federal autarchy linked to the MEC responsible for evaluating it. They regulate, monitor, evaluate, and validate the Brazilian institutions, courses, professionals, and students.

    I worked at these institutions for 5 years, creating services to monitor the planning, budget and finance of the Institutions related to the MEC, to evaluate the quality, frequency and expenses of the technical schools, to evaluate the quality of the courses of the universities, to validate the diplomas of medical professionals, and to evaluate the students to enter the universities.

    Education as a Platform

    With a country with continental dimensions, the services of the MEC and INEP are required to deal with millions of students, schools, technical schools, universities and educational professionals. Some of these services include charging fees and taxes. The government must monitor and validate these financial transactions, sometimes millions per day. The services also need to aggregate much data and provide maps, reports, insights, dashboards, and alerts to the government and related institutions.

    Knowledge to Better Educate

    Impact

    We developed E-MEC software for educational accreditation and quality assurance for all universities in the country. That software improved the consistency, transparency, and speed of evaluating courses and institutions. We also developed the National Examination for the Revalidation of Medical Diplomas Issued by Foreign Higher Education Institutions and the SISTEC, which is the National Registry of Technical Courses. These services improved the quality of the professionals and the technical schools in the country, and also brought more information and transparency to the government and the society. Finally, I also colarorated with the ENEM, which is the National High School Examination, and the SIMEC, which is the System for the Management of the Educational Resources of the MEC.

    Technologies