to assist with the cost of their studies the government has also recently announced that quota students will receive a stipend of brl per month souza bolsa permanencia stayingon scholarship rising to brl per month for indigenous and quilombolcr students the states of rio de janeiro and bahia have previously introduced quota systems an evaluation of one such scheme at the university of brasilia francis and tannuripianto found that it raised the proportion of black students at the university and that the displacing students were from lower socioeconomic status families on average one of the key issues is that the brazilian higher education system is highly regressive free highly selective public universities are attended primarily by richer students while poorer students are forced to attend feecharging private institutions