PRONATEC: Socioeconomic Impacts on students graduating from technical courses at the Jundiaí Agricultural School - EAJ / UFRN
PRONATEC; Public policy; Education; Employability; Graduates; Job market.
This work is located in the Research Line of "Policy and Institutional Management" of the Post-Graduate Program in Management of Institutional Processes of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. In analyzing the National Program of Access to Technical Education and Employment (PRONATEC), it focuses on the problem: "What are the effective impacts of PRONATEC on the life and insertion of young people in the labor market?" PRONATEC public school run by the Agricultural School of Jundiaí (EAJ), in the years 2013 to 2015 related to the results in the professional and social life of its graduates of technical courses. Specific objectives are: Identify the profile of young graduates of PRONATEC courses; To verify if the graduates of PRONATEC were able to enter the labor market; Analyze possible changes in the income of the graduates. As a theoretical reference, the principles of Public Administration were addressed with an emphasis on the principle of efficiency. Soon after, the history of Professional Education in Brazil was recalled and some of the Public Policies implemented in the last years. From this the work describes the creation of PRONATEC and its implantation in a Federal Teaching Institution. For the development of the research, the bibliographic survey, documentary analysis and field research were used as methodological procedures. It is therefore considered part of the bibliographic research legal documents, such as legislation, documents of the MEC and the EAJ / UFRN. In addition, documents and institutional legislation regarding PRONATEC were used. The phenomenon was analyzed quantitatively by analyzing 2223 enrollment records of young graduates from 62 classes of 22 PRONATEC technical courses of the institution in 29 cities of Rio Grande do Norte. Of these, 946 completed the course. Personal data of the graduates were extracted from the enrollment forms. After that, an online questionnaire was prepared and sent to them. Of the 2223 graduates surveyed, 127 responses were obtained, mostly from the final students. Among the conclusions, it was verified that the young people seek in the course of PRONATEC a possibility of rapid insertion in the labor market and the necessity of the creation of a mechanism of connection between graduates and companies of their area of performance. In view of this situation, in addition to the preparation of this diagnosis and the proposal for operational improvements through a service letter, it is also suggested to implement the "Portal of Expatriates" in SIGAA/UFRN, as in SIGAA/IFPA.