Acess to higher education and trajectories of graduates of Prouni

Author(s)

Paula Macchione Saes

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação
• Defense date: 2015-02-27

Examining board members

Letícia Bicalho Canedo; Marcia Regina de Lima Silva; Ana Maria Fonseca de Almeida

• Advisor: Letícia Bicalho Canedo

Abstract

This research discusses the Prouni - Program University for All - created by the Brazilian Federal Government in 2005. The program started in a context of important debates on public education policies for expanding access to higher education and also in a context of appearance of policies for affirmative action in universities. It aims to provide scholarships, partial or integral, for students, with low per capita family income, in undergraduate courses in private institutions of higher education. The objective of this research is to understand the effects of the Prouni to students that take part in the program and that, otherwise, would be excluded from this level of education. Therefore, by collecting interviews and questionnaires with a group of students, it investigates the trajectories of these graduates and how the insertion and higher education brought changes in their lives, especially regarding the possibility of placement in the labor market. The individual¿s histories and collective's trajectories demonstrate that, for a population with small or no perspective of ingression in higher education, the Prouni is an important opportunity as it opens a way to escape the family destiny (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/20853-5 - Access to higher education and trajectories of graduates Prouni
• Grantee: Paula Macchione Saes
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master