O financiamento da assistência estudantil na UFES no contexto de contrarreforma da educação superior

Abstract

The objective of this research is to explore the process of financing, and public spending, with the student assistance policy in the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Ufes) in the period following the implementation of the Programa Nacional de Assistência Estudantil - PNAES (the National Student Assistance Program). This study considers the available literature and documentary research concerning budget data. It also presents considerations about the trajectory of student assistance, especially within a context of crucial changes in the university’s policies from the year 2000 onwards, and its financing process, taking the following concepts and categories as reference: parasitic capitalism, public funding, and policy changes in higher education. In this essay, student assistance is understood as an educational policy which aims to respond to aspects of social issues in academic contexts. This policy expands in a contradictory way, within a context of structural crisis in capitalism. As final results of this research, it was possible to identify advancements and limitations in both financing and public spending with the student assistance policy at Ufes; highlighting both the amplification of real number resources and an increase of the amount of students enrolled in the program, as well as the permanence of residual transfer, as a means to grant capital remuneration, especially in its fictitious form; and the offer of focused, selective, and residual services.