Banca de DEFESA: CRISTIANE PRACIANO LAURIANO DE LIMA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : CRISTIANE PRACIANO LAURIANO DE LIMA
DATE: 18/07/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Auditório 01 do PPGEd - NEPSA II
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KEY WORDS:

Keyword: Neoliberalism; Student Assistance Policies; Student Assistance Resources

PAGES: 336
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

This thesis, entitled “Student Assistance Policy in Higher Education in Brazil and Portugal: a

study of student assistance resources at UFRN (Brazil) and ULisboa (Portugal) (2015-2022)”, aimed to analyze student assistance at UFRN (Brazil) and Social Action services in Higher Education at ULisboa (Portugal), seeking to understand how the resources allocated to these policies conditioned their integrality and their capacity to serve students who requested this student support from 2015 to 2022. The research used historical-dialectical materialism as an investigative approach and literature review, bibliographic research and documentary analysis as technical-methodological procedures. Student assistance in Brazil and Portugal has been an important mechanism for enabling access and permanence in higher education for the most socioeconomically disadvantaged students who access this educational level. However, in contexts where the State is forced to make budget cuts with the aim of containing public debt, this social policy has encountered obstacles to achieving its objectives and the budgetary sustainability of this policy has been put to the test. The analysis revealed that, although inserted in different sociopolitical contexts, Brazil and Portugal are subject to global influences that define common conceptions and political matrices for higher education, reverberating in the rearrangements and formats of student assistance. In the context of economic globalization,

both countries assume commitments aimed at adapting the education sector to the hegemonic logic of capital, so that the formulation of social policies begins to be structured, primarily, from the perspective of reconciling economic development and fiscal sustainability. In this scenario, the financing of student assistance policies in Brazil and Portugal begins to be shaped by market imperatives, being constantly under tension between guaranteeing the right to education and the limits imposed by economic logic. Under the economicist guidelines, public budget resources are instrumentalized and progressively redirected to financial capital. As a result, public investments intended to serve the most impoverished students - so that they can enter, remain in and complete higher education - are, year after year, restricted. The investigative findings allowed us to identify that at UFRN, in Brazil, the student assistance policy was impacted by successive budget cuts. In 2022, the current allocation of AE resources from the PNAES, at this university, when compared to the resources of 2015, suffered a loss of 35%. This situation led UFRN, based on the guidelines of national policies and the need to 'adapt' to the scarce budget, to reinforce, within this university, three specific dynamics: the narrowing of the student selection criteria, the intensification of scholarship processes and the prioritization of student assistance through the provision of support that is limited to material survival. At ULisboa, in Portugal, it was found that, due to an insufficient budget, the average annual amounts of scholarships for students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds who enter higher education were reduced. In the years investigated, these average annual amounts decreased by 32%, jeopardizing the policy objectives and, consequently, limiting the scope of ASES in addressing the social disadvantages of the most disadvantaged students who access higher education

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - ***.306.895-** - ALDA MARIA DUARTE ARAÚJO CASTRO - UFRN
Externo à Instituição - ALLAN SOLANO SOUZA
Externo ao Programa - 347393 - ANTONIO CABRAL NETO - UFRNExterno à Instituição - BELMIRA GIL CABRITO
Presidente - ***.566.554-** - MARIA APARECIDA DOS SANTOS FERREIRA - IFRN
Interna - 347594 - MARIA GORETTI CABRAL BARBALHO
Externa à Instituição - VERA LÚCIA JACOB CHAVES - UFPA