Approved in 1st place in CNU 2025, candidate is prevented from taking office due to 'incompatible' training

The notice required a degree in Information Technology, Visual Communication or "related areas", but did not inform which courses fell into this last category. Prevented from taking office, the journalist went to court to contest the decision. In a note sent to g1, INCA stated that "the rejection resulted from the conclusion that compliance with the education requirement set out in the notice was not proven." (read the full note at the end of the report) According to the institute, the decision followed the criteria established in the CNU notice and considered the responsibilities of the position, the training presented by the candidate and official references, such as the classification of CINE Brasil, from Inep. The body reported that the specialty requires knowledge mainly focused on visual communication, graphic design, web development and technologies applied to communication and, therefore, concluded that a degree in Journalism did not meet the requirement for the position. What happened? Graduated in Journalism, with a master's degree and a doctorate from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Jatobá claims to have worked for around 10 years in the areas of visual communication and editorial, developing activities such as publishing, graphic production, preparing newsletters and managing digital content. He says that he decided to take the Unified National Public Competition after successive unsuccessful attempts in other competitions. In 2025, after facing the loss of a family member, the end of a relationship and being fired from his job, he decided to dedicate himself fully to his studies. "I put this vacancy as my first option and I never imagined that I would be approved, because it was a vacancy contested by candidates from all over Brazil", he recalls. Jatobá states that the expression "related areas", used in the notice, has generated doubts among candidates since the publication of the document. To clarify the doubt, he contacted Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), the competition's organizing committee, and also the Ministry of Health, through the Access to Information Law. In response, FGV informed that, in cases where the notice provides for "related areas", it is up to the body responsible for the vacancy to analyze, at the time of inauguration, whether the training presented meets the requirements of the position. The panel added that it is the candidate's responsibility to only apply for vacancies whose training they consider compatible with the notice. The journalist also consulted the Table of Knowledge Areas of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), which organizes the areas of scientific research. According to him, the classification indicated proximity between Journalism and Visual Communication. In response, the Ministry of Health stated that the CNPq table is not used to establish equivalence between undergraduate courses, but only to classify areas of knowledge focused on research. To justify the registration, Jatobá says that he also took into account subjects studied during his undergraduate studies, such as graphic production, photography, publishing, layout and visual communication. Furthermore, it cites a live broadcast from the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI) in which representatives from the department stated that the expression "related areas" was not new to the CNU and that compatibility should be analyzed based on the relationship between the content of the course and the training required for the position. Journalist Ícaro Silva Jatobá was denied tenure after INCA understood that his degree did not meet the requirements of the notice. Personal File Negative came after the appointment Jatobá was disqualified after being appointed, taking the admission exams, submitting all the required documentation and spending more than R$1,000 on exams and medical procedures necessary for the inauguration. The decision was based on the classification of CINE Brasil (International Standardized Classification of Education Adapted for Undergraduate Courses in Brazil), from the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (Inep), used to organize higher education courses in the country. Although it recognizes that Journalism is part of the area of ??Communication, INCA understood that training is mainly aimed at the production and dissemination of information. In the technical note, the institute also states that the expression "related areas", provided for in the notice, does not automatically allow any degree in the Communication area to be classified. According to the document, it is necessary to demonstrate compatibility between academic training and the duties of the position. The opinion also concludes that the master's degree and doctorate presented by the candidate do not meet the education requirement required for the position. For Jatobá, the notice did not establish objective criteria to define which courses would be considered "related areas" nor did it restrict the vacancy to graduates in Visual Communication. "My concern is legal security. If there were one and