A Assistência Estudantil no Ensino Superior: uma análise sobre as políticas de permanência das universidades federais brasileiras

Abstract

The main subject of this study is the political analysis of the Brazilian federal universities student s assistance. Aiming to recognize and reflect on these policies actions, a research was carried on, through the investigation of websites from the fourteen federal institutions created or federalized during the period between 2003 and 2010, by identifying the ongoing services, projects and programs that referred to the theme Permanence. According to the Student s Assistance National Plan, in order to assure the student s permanence, it is necessary to offer actions for promoting housing, feeding, transportation, child nursery, health and mental care, as well as the appropriate conditions to assist disabled individuals. The results have shown that the majority of institutions already have such actions, mostly grant programs our financial support to pay for housing, feeding and transportation. A few institutions have student housing and restaurant facilities. In relation to health and mental care and assistance to the disabled, very few actions could be identified. The work has also approached the social rights issue, the public policies in education and higher education, focused on the nowadays university access system. In addition, it was also analyzed the work on education policies that the social assistants develop along with the institutions