Reconhecimento de títulos estrangeiros de pós-graduação no Brasil: política, processos e resultados da plataforma Carolina Bori

Abstract

This research has as its object of study the stricto sensu policy for the recognition of foreign graduate degrees established in Brazil in 2016, when the Carolina Bori Platform was created, through Normative Ordinance no. 22/2016. The Carolina Bori Platform consists of a digital structure designed to mediate recognition processes and, for this reason, has a consistent amount of information about recognition request processes inserted in its system since its implementation, in 2017, being able to outline the movement produced in Brazil that contextualizes the theme as a State problem. In this sense, the general objective is to analyze the policy for recognizing foreign graduate degrees based on the adoption of the Carolina Bori Platform in order to explain its results. Therefore, this thesis is built from the qualitative approach and has bibliographical and documental research as methods of executing the analysis of the data obtained. Its apex is in the documentary corpus extracted from the Carolina Bori Platform portal and obtained from a restricted request with the Ministry of Education via the Electronic System of the Citizen Information Service, containing elements that characterize 7.767 processes of recognition requests inserted in the Platform during the period from 2017 to 2020, with a view to identifying origins, characteristics, chronologies, profiles, areas of knowledge and results of the recognition processes of titles that are processed in the period. The results of the analyzes demonstrate that Brazilian academic mobility has been based on what can be called the “collateral effect of internationalization”, which is spontaneous mobility through the cross-border education phenomenon, where there are no partnerships or cooperation between countries, and higher education is driven by commercial issues. The choice for countries with easy access, without great academic prestige, the choice for saturated areas of knowledge in Brazil and the high rate of canceled and rejected recognition processes by Brazilian higher education institutions, demonstrate the referred phenomenon. The analyzes also reveal that the deadlines determined by the regulations for the normal and simplified procedures remain a bottleneck in this policy, demonstrating that the foreign title recognition scenario is complex and requires more comprehensive actions than just imposing deadlines and regulating the actions of the recognizing institutions. Thus, it is confirmed that the title recognition policy promoted through the Carolina Bori Platform is configured as a response from the Brazilian State to the growing demand for requests brought about by mobility, however, it is not a response that solves the problem of entry lack of quality training titles in Brazil, nor does it limit the mobility of Brazilians to foreign Higher Education Institutions in search of certifications that are not always attested. It is, therefore, a focused and punctual response, without substantive changes, which leads one to believe that Brazil has contributed to supplying the global qualifications market based on its policy of recognizing foreign qualifications.