Analysis of the Relationship between the Public and Private Sectors in Higher Education within the Scope of Fies

• Autor(a) principal: Neves, Rodrigo Meleu das
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Bandeira, Denise Lindstrom
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: FINEDUCA - Revista de Financiamento da Educação
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/fineduca/article/view/114001
• topic: Fies. Higher Education Policy. Public Education Policies. Public-Private Relations in Education. Student Financing.; Fies. Política de Educação Superior. Políticas Públicas de Educação. Relações Público-Privado na Educação. Financiamento Estudantil.; Financiamento da Educação Superior

The Student Financing Fund (Fies), created in 1999, has already funded over three million students. The purpose of this article is to analyze how Fies contributed to the expansion of private higher education in Brazil. – A mixed – quantitative and qualitative – research method is employed, with an emphasis on the sequential explanatory strategy model, and, in the theoretical-contextual perspective, the text represents Fies in the framework of neoliberal ideas for State action in education, in which the privatization and commodification of higher education are leveraged. Data on public expenditures on the Program and its service are examined, covering numbers of contracts, students, institutions, and territorial distribution. The 1999-2020 gap registers a significant increase in access to higher education and Fies, which started timidly, expanded significantly between 2011 and 2015. Currently, Fies reveals itself as a policy that is clearly shrinking and with an uncertain future.