André de Holanda Padilha Vieira is a tenured Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Methodology of Social Sciences at the Fluminense Federal University and an associate researcher at the Research Group on Structuring Inequalities (Desestrutura/UFF) and the Laboratory for Research into Higher Education (Lapes/UFRJ). His research and writing focus on educational inequalities, higher education, school-to-work transition and social inequalities. Professor Vieira holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Brasília, MA in Sociology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a PhD in Sociology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.