Study on Brazil

Invitation to Tender released at 0730 UK time on Friday 19 August 2011
Please note that responses to this Invitation to Tender must reach us by 5.00 pm UK time on Friday 26 August 2011.

The VISCED project (http://visced.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page) is part-funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union. Its aim is to make an inventory and to carry out a systematic review at international and national levels of Virtual Schools and Colleges - and related "exemplar" initiatives of distance teaching, online tutoring, online content provision, virtual out-of-school activities, etc - oriented to school and college students in the 14-21 age range. The inventory will supply adequate comparative data, statistics and analyses to underpin policy recommendations, critical/key success factors and teacher trainer recommendations - for policy-makers, advisors, government, education authorities and the e-learning industry in the EU.

To this end the project is currently creating and updating a large number of country reports, each of which describes the educational system in a particular country and then goes on to describe the ICT in education initiatives of relevance to VISCED. These reports are currently "work in progress" but can be seen as links from the page http://www.virtualcampuses.eu/index.php/All_countries_by_population

We now have a need for updating the earlier country report on Brazil, which was focussed mainly on higher education (since it was done for Re.ViCa - http://www.virtualcampuses.eu). For its current form see http://www.virtualcampuses.eu/index.php/Brazil

We wish to appoint a consultant or consultants to carry out the following two Tasks:

(A) Update and improvement of the material in http://www.virtualcampuses.eu/index.php/Brazil on school and college education in Brazil (B) Creation of a set of exemplars of virtual schools, virtual colleges and related distance teaching/tutoring/content provision focussed at students (other than university students) in the 14-21 age range. Each exemplar should be structured in way suggested by the template http://www.virtualcampuses.eu/index.php/Brazil_virtual_school_template - for examples see http://www.virtualcampuses.eu/index.php/Funda%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Bradesco_Escola_Virtual and http://www.virtualcampuses.eu/index.php/Holos_Virtual_School

For each task there is a fee of 500 UK pounds (or the equivalent in euros). Consultants may tender for either or both of the Tasks.

Consultants should have:


 * 1) experience of ICT in education, ideally in schools and colleges
 * 2) good reading and typing ability in Portuguese, sufficient for the purposes of reading reports in Portuguese and searching the web using relevant Brazilian Portuguese words and phrases
 * 3) experience of country-level analysis for a country other than their home country
 * 4) ideally, a knowledge of Brazilian society obtained from former residency in or travel to Brazil
 * 5) the ability to demonstrate that they can work within the EU, via nationality or other route

Consultants may include postgraduate students in education provided that they are approved to work in the EU.

If consultants are interested they should email an application to paul.bacsich@sero.co.uk on or before 5.00 pm UK time on Friday 26 August. The email should have "Brazil" in the Subject: line followed by "Task A", "Task B" or "Tasks A and B".

Consultants will be notified on 31 August 2011 and should be available to start work soon after that date.

An interim report will be needed on 12 September 2011 by 1700 UK time, and the work is to be completed on or before 30 September 2011.

The Application should be no longer than two pages of A4 and include:


 * 1) contact details including address, phone and email
 * 2) statement as to whether they are tendering for (A) or (B) or both
 * 3) evidence of language ability in Portuguese
 * 4) evidence of approval to work within the EU
 * 5) brief CV, focussing on relevant information including web sites
 * 6) URLs or attached file or files, demonstrating relevant reports of theirs
 * 7) for (A), source material (other than Wikipedia entries) that they intend to draw on, with reasons; for (B), two examples of virtual schools or virtual colleges or related virtual provision in Brazil not already described on the wiki (http://www.virtualcampuses.eu)

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