Notes on the 2000 advertising government's higher education policy

Abstract

In the last two decades there were significant changes in Brazilian higher education system, since enacting of 1996’s LDB (Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação), which sets the directives of educational system in Brazil. Changes are driven by several reasons. Besides LDB, it must be considered the private higher education’s growth encouraged by FHC’s administration, and the new higher education policies of Lula’s administration. The main goal of this paper is to study this process of transformations, especially the policies  with  largest  impact  over  national’s  higher  education  system.  Among  other conclusions of the study, it stands out the fact that current Brazilian’s higher education system has turned into one hybrid system, which combined features of both FHC and Lula’s policies. The increase of work rhythm planned under FHC’s policy supposed the dismantling  of  tripod  “teach-research-extension”  system,  and  academic  productivism would operate in a class shattered by specialization. Under Lula’s policy, the tripod system was maintained, but there was no debate about the productivism as the logic the professor’s  work  was  driven  by.  Thus,  it  demanded  from  professors  to  work simultaneously in teaching, researching and doing extension (not to mention academic’s management work), but in volume and intensity substantially expanded, according to productivist logic.