PROPOSTA DE AVALIAÇÃO ECONÔMICO-FINANCEIRA DO PROGRAMA DE REESTRUTURAÇÃO E EXPANSÃO DAS UNIVERSIDADES FEDERAIS BRASILEIRAS NA UFPEL

Abstract

This paper focuses on national policy for expansion of public higher education at the Federal University of Pelotas, defined as a guide line for actions to be implemented by this institution considering the period between 2008 to 2012, through the Programme of Restructuring and Expansion of Federal Universities-REUNI. As a starting point, the work shows the history of the university in Brazil, the process of transformation and the main reforms that took place in higher education, as well as its challenges. Then, this work draws a parallel with the public policy of expanding access to public university in Brazil today. The research also addresses the issue of public policy evaluation, for considering the context and speech which constant lack of resources for the implementation of public policies, the evaluation is considered as an important tool for those who formulates and implements these policies. At the same time, it is emphasized that the evaluation has the ability to potentiate the correction of the direction of policy employed. This study also aims to present a proposal for economic and financial evaluation of the program on UFPEL. The procedures adopted for the proposed evaluation program included document analysis of the proposed expansion of the Ministry of Education, the proposed expansion of UFPEL as well as other documents standardizations and institutional and legal frameworks related to the topic. As a result of this analysis, it was developed a proposal for evaluation with a topic called economic-financial, which to be better understood has been divided into a proposed annual program and a total program.This topic was divided into four dimensions: financial invested resources; transfer of funds to the program, budget execution, financial, and management and monitoring of the agreed targets. The dimensions were subdivided into variables, and these appropriate indicators. With this proposition, we expect improvements in program implementation, strengthening of monitoring and evaluation culture in the academic community and creation of parameters that can be used by other similar institutions