A Emenda Constitucional no 95 de 2016: reflexos nas políticas de assistência estudantil no ensino superior da UFGD

Abstract

Enacted on December 15, 2016, Constitutional Amendment nº 95 established limits on public spending for a period of 20 years. According to the new rule, the federal government's primary spending is now subject to a fixed ceiling, defined by the budget available for 2017, readjusted by the accumulated inflation, obtained through the “IPCA”. The perspective is that the financial resources destined to the maintenance and development of Education, suffer a substantial reduction and negatively impact the sector's functions, resulting in the commitment of the educational goals established at national level, as well as the commitments signed by Brazil internationally. Based on this assumption, the research problem of this article consists of investigating the reflexes of EC n. 95/2016 at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), with the thematic approach to verifying whether the measures instituted by the new Tax Regime impacted the granting of student assistance grants to undergraduate students, surveying data for the 2014-2019 period. The method used is the hypothetical-deductive combined with bibliographic and documental research. The research result demonstrates an oscillation in the granting of student assistance grants by UFGD in the period analyzed, but there was no significant decrease capable of justifying the confirmation of the negative impact hypothesis caused specifically by EC nº 95/2016, also not verifying a continuous movement of expansion in the number of scholarships granted. Therefore, a more precise statement about the materialization of public policies for student assistance would require an analysis compared to other Institutions.