Análise das políticas públicas federais de educação e suas repercussões sobre as instituições de ensino superior privadas no Brasil.

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation was to analyze the relationship between the rapid growth of private universities in Brazil and the educational policy of the federal government along the period of 2001-2005. Thus, institutional documents of the federal government (MEC and INEP), the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, the Law of Diretrizes e Bases da Educação were analyzed. We concluded that the significant growth of the private institutions was the consequence of an educational policy of the federal government, implemented by the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and reinforced by the Lula government, consisting of incentives and enlargement of the educational credit, which allowed the significant increase of vacancies in private institutions. At the same time, the public institutions, in the same period, were submitted to severe budget restrictions and obstacles to substitute or amplify their staff (professors and administrative personnel), which resulted in a freeze in the vacancies expansion in these institutions. Finally, we discuss the issue of the higher education expansion in Brazil and its quality.