Over 17,000 students absent from Enem first day in Alagoas

Over 17,000 students in Alagoas failed to participate in the national university entrance exam, potentially limiting their access to higher education opportunities.

Each year, Brazil's ENEM exam functions as a great sorting — a single Sunday that can redirect the arc of a young person's life toward university or away from it. On November 13th, 2022, nearly 2.5 million students across the country sat for that exam, but in Alagoas, a northeastern state where structural disadvantage runs deep, more than 17,000 registered students never arrived. Their absence is not merely statistical; it is a quiet signal that the distance between opportunity and access remains unequal in ways that numbers alone cannot fully explain.

Over 17,000 students absent from Enem first day in Alagoas

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