Evaluation of the Pronatec courses: benchmarking with long-term technical courses

Abstract

The objective of this work is to evaluate the effectiveness of the National Program of Access to Technical Education and Employment (PRONATEC) through a benchmarking of the short-term technical courses of the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina - IFSC with long-term technical courses from the south of Brazil. The data were obtained from the questionnaire application and the methods used were: content analysis, chi-square test and Mann-Whitney U-test. The results indicated that the percentages of employed graduates of short or long-term courses were the same, but in the long-term courses the number of graduates working in their formation area was statistically higher, besides having a greater mobility in the occupation of employment in different regions of Brazil.