even under the lei das cotas of free places at public institutions will be taken up by welloff students many of whom could afford to pay for their university education the international evidence suggests that the introduction of fees does not reduce participation as long as it accompanied by a decent student support system which already exists in brazil under the guise of prouni and fies although they should then be extended to students attending public institutions as well alternatively andrade has argued that a targeted voucher system would increase the efficiency of the brazilian higher education system as compared with the current system