Políticas de expansão da educação superior no Brasil 1995-2010

Abstract

The paper presents the main trends of the expansion of higher education in Brazil, between 1995 and 2010, based in four areas. First, it exposes the progressive privatization, both in respect of the growth of private-market institutions and the commodification of public institutions. Then, it displays the expansion promoted by the federal government, particularly analyzing the Support Program for the Restructuring and Expansion of Federal Universities (REUNI). As a third trend, the expansion of distance learning and, finally, the growth of post graduation, redefining entrepreneurial knowledge. The conclusion is that, in all these fields, substantive changes were induced, under the ideology that appeals to a market economy, rationalizing public spending, based on a system of partnership between state and market, and suppressing various rights and social achievements, transmuted into services, governed by an intense process of mercantilization.