Fies and Prouni in the expansion of Brazilian higher education: policies to democratize access and/or to promote the private-mercantile sector?

• Autor(a) principal: Miranda, Paula Roberta
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Azevedo, Mário Luiz Neves de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Educação & Formação (Fortaleza)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/redufor/article/view/1421
• topic: Democratização; Educação Superior Privada; Expansão; Fies; Prouni; Educação; Democratization. Private Higher Education. Expansion. Fies. Prouni.; Education; Democratización. Educación Superior Privada. Expansión. Fies. Prouni; Educación

This article aims to analyze the higher education expansion public policies in Brazil, in the period from 1990 to 2015, through Fies and Prouni (2003-2015), and its relationship with the private sector in the formation of a lucrative educational market in order to identify the implications of these programs in the process of democratization of higher education. The analyzes showed the prevalence of the private sector in the offer of higher education in relation to the public sector. In the three programs analyzed, the expansion, occurred in the period from 1990 to 2015, contributed to the process of democratization of higher education, but it occurred through the private offer. This leads the conclusion that the current overview of higher education can be typified as expansion of commodification or its financialization, and the education, a social right, becomes a commodity.