About

The seminar has as theme public Higher Education in Brazil, addressing in particular two aspects: expansion and evasion. Regarding the first aspect, the aim is to make a regionalized analysis of the expansion and interiorization of the Federal Institutions of Higher Education in the territory with reference to the volume of enrolments and the profile of graduates. By publishing a detailed examination of the regional profile of in-person undergraduate students, it is hoped to demonstrate the significant contribution that this public policy of higher education has made to the process of social inclusion, research and professional training in Brazil. Evasion will also be addressed, problematising the current use of definitions and measurers to evaluate institutions. Such uses have often been aligned with a quantitative, fiscalist and colonialist perspective. The aim is to bring to the forefront the right to education and the purposes of higher education.

Programme
- Expansion, inclusion and internalisation of Federal Institutions of Higher Education: an inconclusive project for Brazil - Eduardo Nunes Guimarães (Professor at the Economics Institute of the Federal University of Uberlândia, Visiting PostDoctoral Research Intern at CES)

- When is dropping out a problem? Reviewing public policies for higher education - Leonardo Barbosa e Silva (Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Federal University of Uberlândia, Visiting PostDoctoral Research Intern at CES)

This seminar is part of the activities of OpEdu | Observatory for Education Policies and Professional Development, in partnership with CC.EDU | Working Group on Citizen Science and Education