Engineering in São Carlos is the most disputed course at USP

By Waldirene Biernath

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USP Campus in São Carlos

The Fuvest (Fundação Universitária para o Vestibular) has announced the ratio of applicants to places to the 2012 entrance exam, which will select students for USP (Universidade de São Paulo) and to the Medical Sciences Faculty of São Paulo’ Santa Casa.

The civil engineering entrance exam at USP in São Carlos is the most disputed. The course has 52.27 candidates applying for each one of its 60 places - 3,136 candidates in total.

The second most disputed course is medicine, with 51.18 candidates for each one of its 275 places. There are in total 14,074 candidates. Advertising and Marketing is in the third place, with the ratio of 47.2 candidates/place.

In total, 146,892 people enrolled in the Fuvest 2012 entrance exam. Candidates apply for 10,852 places at USP and one hundred places for Medical Sciences Faculty of Santa Casa.

Of the total number of candidates, 51,661 are applying for places of courses in the humanities, 40,221 for biological and 36,211 for exact areas.

New prime minister named in Greece

By Waldirene Biernath

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Lucas Papademos is the Greece' s new interim Prime Minister

Former European Central Bank vice-president, Lucas Papademos has been named as Greece's new prime minister after several days of negotiations.

Greeks hope the news will provide the stability to get them through their debt crisis.

Mr Papademos will head an interim government being formed to make sure debt-laden Greece gets its latest bailout payment, and to approve a new 130bn euro international rescue package from eurozone partners and the International Monetary Fund.

The drama in Greece has shaken international markets, as investors fear the new bailout deal negotiated with European leaders late last month - which has stringent austerity measures attached - may not be implemented.

Mr Papademos will replace Greece's outgoing prime minister George Papandreou who announced he was resigning after a disastrous call for a referendum on the eurozone rescue package.

The new prime minister will face a confidence vote before parliament, which is expected to happen on Monday, Greek state TV reported.

Source:

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/10/world/europe/greece-main/;

http://br.noticias.yahoo.com/lucas-papademos-nomeado-primeiro-ministro-gr%C3%A9cia-oficial-130051630.html

Vocabulary:

bailout (noun): money that someone gives or lends to a person or organization with financial problems;

stringent (adjective): stringent rules or conditions are strict and make you achieve high standards;

measures (noun): an action that is intended to achieve or deal with something; a system used for expressing a particular quantity.