O processo de avaliação externa no ensino superior: implicações para as IES pública e privada

Abstract

The external evaluation proposal promoted by the Ministry of Education and Culture - MEC has been a source of extensive discussion in Brazil over the years which have intensified in the last two decades due to increasing of the vacancies numbers offered in higher education. This research intents to know what is the influence of the external evaluation process, promoted by the MEC, on the HEI considering that the process is carried out ten years ago and has been few considered while a guide of the quality of higher education in Brazil. This study aims to analyze the implications, influences and contributions from the external evaluation of the higher education institutions of the country. For this, a study was conducted at two institutions in the same city located in Parana, being one of them a private college and the other one, a public university. It was found that the process has great influence and impact on educational institutions as a whole, moreover it was possible to verify the state's position as a regulator of a system where there is little opening for dialogue and for the real participation of the academic community in developing public policies for the Brazilian higher education