The increased demand for business schools in Brazil is the result of the economic development process which has been happening in the country and Latin America in the last ten years, says the director of São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV/EAESP), Professor Maria Tereza Leme Fleury, in an interview to magazine Isto É Dinheiro that seeks to understand the phenomenon, draw an overview of Administration education institutions and the reality of the labor market.Income redistribution has generated a middle class that is demanding higher education and discovering business schools. We have a number of schools that will meet this less demanding audience. For another group of students, seeking a more qualified education, there are offers from first class public and private universities, she said.Still according to her, entrepreneurship is not always encouraged by the companies, but at EAESP students are prepared to open and manage new businesses. Our students have lessons on what is a medium and small business, how to make a business plan, what it means to open a new venture. They have engineering students as colleagues and this has produced a lot of exchange among them. This may, in the future, generate new business and encourage entrepreneurship, said Maria Tereza.The professor also explained that, in Brazil, there is a great concern for education, the stimuli to research and the understanding of what Brazilian reality is, and she talked about the role of business schools in this context. To provide an education of excellence, and at the same time, develop knowledge through research, content development, better understanding of the economic and social environment. Finally, look for political tools and practices that improve reality, she concluded.Please click here to read the full interview (in Portuguese).