Abstract

Nowadays, the crucial dilemma of Brazilian Higher Education is the task of to broaden access of a major part of population which is concluding secondary studies for the first time in history. The National Plan of Education (PNE, 2001)establish as a goal to increase Higher Education fees to 30% in the 18-24 years of age until 2010. The enlargement of these fees has been sustained by private enterprise, in despite of the Lula da Silva government investments in the federal institutions. The trends of the public policies consecrate to broaden access of population to Higher Education, based in measures as the University for All Program (PROUNI) and the educational credit implementation, denote the present configuration of Brazilian Higher Education system – marked for private enterprise hegemony in vacancy supply – drives to became solid, once it complies with the increase of the access as maintains the vacancy supply structure in this sector. Keywords: Higher Education policy; access; affirmative action; PROUNI.

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