Public Policy of access and permanence of students in Higher Education: The Programa Universidade para Todos.

Abstract

The article investigates the Brazilian public policy aimed at promoting student access and permanence at the university. It addresses the main actions aimed at this type of education, describing some of the main changes that occurred in the educational policy for higher education during the Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) administrations. It highlights the process of creation and operation of the University for All Program (PROUNI) instituted by Provisional Measure nº 213 in 2004, which later became Law nº 11,096 in 2005. National Assessment of Higher Education and ENADE – National Student Performance Exam. It develops by pointing out the data of the report and on Tax Expenses of the Secretariat of Governmental Macroevaluation of the Federal Court of Auditors. It points out that the volume of the State's tax waiver describing the number of scholarships distributed, and also, making an evolution of the annual cost and monthly cost per student in the program in the period from 2005 to 2012. It presents the number of the evasion of PROUNI scholarship holders from 2005 to 2009. Concludes by pointing out the main benefits resulting from the program.