Public Administration. Professor removal for development actions. Professor’s leave.

This research has as its central theme the importance of the development of professors for the quality of higher education in a federal public university. It will address the aspects that relate the qualification of the teaching professional with the quality of the institution where the teacher performs his or her activities; the effects of this qualification on the academic and professional career of the teacher and how the legislation provides for the need for continued development of teachers and its impacts on their activities, as well as the modalities of withdrawal of professional activities for qualification. It is justified therefore in its institutional and personal aspects, since the master's student is a servant in UFRN, in the Permanent Commission of Teaching Staff, responsible for analyzing removal processes for development actions. In regards to the problematic, the main guiding question of the research was: What are the current policies for faculty development and how does the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte take advantage of these policies to qualify its faculty? The present study proposes, using the theoretical-bibliographical and hypothetical-deductive methods, making use of qualitative research, with exploratory objective, to analyze the need for permanent development of the professors of the federal public higher education as essential for the importance of these actions for the growth of the Institution and the advance in quality indicators of the Universities and of the tripod that sustains these institutions (teaching, research and extension), the legislation pertinent to this development and concerning the removal of professors as public servants for development actions, elaborating a diagnosis of this legislation and its implications and presenting at the end suggestions with the aim of facilitating the preparation of future regulations under the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, also presenting a practical guide that aims to answer the main questions received by the master's student in her work environment, about the current modalities of procedures for removal for actions of faculty development at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte.