The implementation of quotas in brazilian public university: the intricacies of policy formulation

• Autor(a) principal: Passos, Guiomar de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Gomes, Marcelo Batista
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Título da fonte: Ensaio (Rio de Janeiro. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.cesgranrio.org.br/index.php/ensaio/article/view/281
• topic: Educacion Superior; Escuela Pública; Analisis de politica pública; Reserva de Plazas; Educação Superior. Escola Pública. Analise de politica pública. Reserva de Vagas.; Higher Education; Public Schools; Public Policy Analysis; Quota Admissions

This paper addresses the access to the Brazilian public Higher Education. In analyzing motivations, goals and stakeholders, the work aims to characterize the implementation of quotas at the Federal University of Piaui, emphasizing its inclusion in the agenda; the establishment of alternative solutions and the policy formulation. The study is based on Multiple Streams Model, documentary sources and interviews with the University President; process rapporteurs, prosecutors, provost and the presidents of the Student Admission Standing Committee (Comissao Permanente do Vestibular – COPEVE). It concludes that quotas have been initiated by the university central administration and stimulated by the vacancies growth. In addition, due to the exclusion of students from public primary and secondary schools into the most competitive university courses. Therefore, the formulation has depended on the problem recognition; the existence of viable and acceptable solutions, demand as well as favorable political climate, additionally by the agents actions inclined to implement the program.