The Expansion of Higher and Professional Education and its effects on Mobility in Seridó Potiguar
Seridó Potiguar; Student mobility; Expansion of higher and secondary educations; Daily displacements
The expansion of technical (secondary level) and higher educations in Seridó Potiguar was very important, not only for the improvement of educational levels of the local population, but also for the population’s mobility in that territory, as well as for the daily exchanges of population with other regions. These factors contributed to new perspectives on migration. This subject is gaining increasing importance, being necessary a greater number of studies to understand the new perspectives caused by this new reality. With this in mind, the daily flows of students of secondary and higher educations were traced, as well as flows for working reasons between 2000 and 2010 in order to obtain a visualization of how the displacements have changed. In addition, the same was done for more recent times (2010 and 2017), but only related to the flows of secondary level students and teachers who work in the same level. In this process, the analysis of the evolution of educational levels of Seridó’s population was essential. For this purpose, the IBGE Demographic Census (2000 and 2010) and the School Census (2000 to 2017) and the Census of Higher Education (2000 to 2017) of Inep were the main sources of data. As results, it was found that the number of people who had access to technical (secondary level) and higher educations increased considerably. Furthermore, daily commutes due to work and study also increased, both in absolute and relative terms, however, with important differences. With regard to student flows, the greater diversity of origins and destinations in the results is also highlighted. In brief, the results show an evolution in the integration of the municipalities of Seridó, a factor that contributes to the attraction of population in age of study (secondary and higher education levels).