
The Forum is also an opportunity for Quebeckers and Canadians of social movements to come together and develop common strategies. Thus meetings between Canadian and Quebec, last week, have delivered a draft Canada-Quebec Social Forum to be held probably in Montreal in fall 2003..
Far from the noisy monsters and assembled a small group of university presidents focuses on a tragedy, that the privatization of higher education especially in poor countries. The country has a score of universities, but only one is public. With the Lula government’s promise to increase the share of GDP devoted to education from 3.5% to 8%, higher education leaders seek to democratize and decentralize formulas.
But we told Roch Denis, the new Brazilian Minister of Education said he was extremely interested in the experience of the university network that is the University of Quebec. This is a new area of cooperation with Brazil, which opens perhaps. In the case of the Director General of the Development Council of the Mauricie is in a South-North that will perhaps trade models. Convinced that the development does not only economic but also social development, he came here to feed on the experience of others in this field.