A Expansão da educação superior e os efeitos no processo de revalidação de títulos de graduação em Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing the process of re-validation of the higher education titles in the public universities, located in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, with a view to making the demands, the actors and the collisions that involve the process through the borderline countries with Brazil, mainly Paraguay and Bolívia explicit. This topic is justified in view of the process of expansion, massification and merchandization of the education from the Latin-American countries, which influences the movement of Brazilian students to the higher education institutions within the context of MERCOSUL. The guiding problem might be synthesized by the following question: What influences did the expansion movement of higher education bring to the re-validation process of graduation titles, taking into consideration the universities from Mato Grosso do Sul which are located in the borderline zone with the countries from MERCOSUL, mainly Paraguay and Bolívia? This research deals with a quantitative-qualitative research with methodological procedures based on the statistical analysis and document research through a search within the universities that encompasses the universe of the research: Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD) and Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS). Besides the analysis of the documents, interviews with the responsible managers were also done as they offer a way to the process of the titles re-validation for the institutions. The results show that the movement that the national politics designed for the process of degrees‟ re-validation is marked by an increase in demand, particularly for the medical school degree, which generated collisions between institutions and Brazilian holders of overseas degrees. The collisions are visualized in the judiciary‟s interference over the institutions as this has led to the endorsement of the institutions to the programs and measures formulated in the federal environment, such as the Revalida Program and the prescribed measures by the National Council of Education. Although the institutions are aware that MEC‟s guidelines lead to the re-validation, especially with the adoption of the Revalida, there is consensus that the conformance of the processes has made it calmer to implement the process along with the institutions. It should be highlighted that – besides the government‟s normative dimension mentioned in the CNE‟s resolutions that shape the actions along with the institutions – the educational and pedagogical dimension of the re-validation policy completed in the adoption of evaluation by means of standardized exams as is the case of the Revalida Program contributed to the adhesion of society to the public measures, including the corporative institutions.