UNIVERSITY WAS always the plan for Ca-mila Dantas, a 19-year-old high-school graduate from Cidade de Deus, a favela in Rio de Janeiro. Her father, who works in construction, was the first person in his family to go to university. Her mother irons clothes. Ms Dantas works in a nail salon and studies for the entrance exam at night. Favelados, or residents of informal settlements, are still a tiny minority of university students. Ms Dantas and her friends see higher education as a "necessary step" towards improving their lives. The pandemic, and the recession it has caused, threaten their plans. All but ten of the 50-odd students in Ms Dantas's online test-prep course have dropped out. Her boyfriend chose work in a tattoo parlour over a fine-arts degree to help his mother pay the bills. A survey published in June by American University in Washington, dc, found that 84% of Latin American universities expect enrolment to fall this year, with half anticipating declines of 10-25%.
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机译：大学始终是CA-Mila Dantas的计划，这是一个19岁的高中毕业于Rio de Janeiro的Favela。她的父亲在建设中，是他家里的第一个人去大学。她的母亲熨衣服。丹塔斯女士在一家指甲沙龙工作，并在晚上进行入学考试。 Faplados或非正式定居点的居民，仍然是大学生的小少数民族。丹塔斯女士和她的朋友认为高等教育是改善生活的“必要步骤”。大流行，造成的经济衰退威胁他们的计划。除了MS Dantas的在线测试准备课程中50多名学生中有10个，还辍学。她的男朋友选择了在纹身艺术学位上工作，以帮助他的母亲支付账单。 6月份在华盛顿特区的美国大学发表的调查发现，84％的拉丁美洲大学期望今年入学率下跌，每次预期下降10-25％。
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