A EXPANSÃO DA REDE FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL E OS DESAFIOS DO FINANCIAMENTO (2013-2018)

Abstract

The paper discusses the process of expanding higher education and financing in the institutions that make up the Federal Network for Professional, Scientific and Technological Education and its challenges due to limitations in financial resources. The analysis was developed based on official documents, particularly the federal government’s budget execution reports (2013-2018 period) and the Higher Education Census (2008; 2013 and 2018). The paper points out that the Federal Institutes and Centers of Professional and Technological Education hadsignificant expansion of enrollments in higher education, however, from 2013 to 2018, the financing of costing and investment expenses suffered relevant cuts that conditioned the hiring staff and the maintaining theseinstitutions. Such cuts were expandedas result of Constitutional Amendment nº. 95/2016.

Keywords

• expansion of higher education
• financing
• professional education
• federal network of technological education
• application of public resources.