La implantación de una universidad tecnológica en Brasil : dificultades y desafíos

• Autor(a) principal: Boeira, Nelson Fernando
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/184307
• topic: Universidades; Brasil; Ensino superior; Technological universities; Brazil; Regional universities; Universities and political context; Higher education; Planning; Universidades tecnológicas; Brasil; Universidades regionales; Universidades y contexto político; Enseñanza superior; Planificación

In July 2001, the government of the federal state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, created the Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul - UERGS, as a public university maintained by the government. The circumstances of regional political life, whose traditional polarisation worsened particularly under the aforementioned government, gave rise to a series of vicissitudes and improvisations during the establishment phase of the new university, seriously jeopardising the original project, which envisaged a technology-based university aimed at innovation and insertion within the productive sector of 6the federal state. Th e article analyses the initial vicissitudes and the measures adopted for recuperating, as far as possible, the initial project, as well as attempting to design a framework of possibilities and alternatives to technological higher education within a context that is, if not hostile, then at least indiff erent towards such an initiative.