Tarcísio will give internship scholarship to 3% of technical students – 10/02/2024 – Education

The Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans) administration announced this Wednesday (2) that it will pay 5,000 internship scholarships in 2025 for high school technical education students. The amount will cover 3% of the 170,000 enrolled in the modality.

The BEEM program (High School Internship Scholarship) will pay up to R$1,000 for students to intern in companies, which will form a partnership with the state government. The scholarships will last for six months.

Increasing enrollment in vocational education is one of the Tarcísio government’s main bets for education in São Paulo. To quickly increase the number of places, management invested in offering technical training routes within regular schools.

With this strategy, the government estimates that next year 170 thousand students will be enrolled in vocational education. In 2023, there were 35 thousand and, this year, 71 thousand.

The Secretary of Education, Renato Feder, said that the scholarship program aims to encourage students to follow professional paths and combat school dropouts.

“It’s a program that encourages and allows students to study and work. It’s important support,” he said after the presentation of the program at Palácio dos Bandeirantes this Wednesday morning.

The objective is for 5,000 students to benefit from the program in 2025 and 30,000 by the end of 2026. Feder acknowledged that the number of scholarships offered may be insufficient to serve all young people who need to work and study. “Let’s start small and then expand.”

As the number of scholarships is small, the secretariat is already preparing program regulations with criteria for priority students. High-income and low-income students will have priority for internships.

All selected students will have four hours of daily internship activities – 20 hours per week.

With the formalization of the program this Wednesday, the technical area of ​​the Department of Education will begin opening notices for partnerships with institutions and private companies interested in receiving students from the program.

BEEM will be paid by Education for a period of six months, as well as students’ personal accident insurance. Partner companies must provide transportation assistance to students and have a professional who will act as internship supervisor, with training or experience in the area of ​​knowledge of the secretariat’s technical course.

“The government will pay the scholarship for six months, for the company it will be free. But the idea is that you [alunos] you will do such a good job that companies will not want to lose you after this period and will hire you. It’s a gateway to the job market”, said Daniel Barros, pedagogical coordinator at the secretariat.

In the professional technical training itinerary, there are nine course options with classes directly in the state’s state schools: administration, agribusiness, data sciences, systems development, nursing, pharmacy, accommodation, logistics and sales.