Políticas de expansão e de regulamentação do Ensino Superior Brasileiro e a otimização das Universidades Federais: reverberações na UFPel.

Abstract

The present study has the objective of analyse the Leis de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional (LDBEN – Brazilian Statutes of National Directives of Education) in terms of Higher Education, as a legal and temporal milestone of regulation of education expansion, with proposed bills oriented by international organizations. The object of this study is brazilian higher education in broadest sense, it’s expansion, in the case of federal institutions, optimized by the Programa de Apoio a Planos de Reestruturação e Expansão das Universidades Federais (REUNI – Brazilian Government Program for Reestructuring and Expansion of Federal Universities) and reconfiguration through a case study of Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel – Federal University of Pelotas). On the grounds of thesis objective, the work will be conducted as a documental and descriptive research, of quantitative and qualitative nature, using statistical and numerical data of the university reports, with the scope of interpreting the object by it´s meaning. The control model used by brazilian Higher Education Institutions, a post-burocratic and centralized regulation model, is one which the State keeps every Higher Education aspects under his tabs (access, contents, granting of degrees, authorization). The system identified is also hybrid, because it can conjugate State control with autonomy strategies and institutional auto-regulation of the Institutions. The analysis concludes that international organizations directed, by the means of official recommendations, the economical and political aspects of Higher Education in this country. The expansion periods were the decisive impulse in reestablishing State as an inducer of Higher Education growth by the means of public education, rising the conditions to improve present private predominance. As a result, the conclusion is that REUNI brought financial resourcers, but regulated UFPel expansion, that took a social compromise with the country, expanding the public university access.