CURSO PRÉ-VESTIBULAR "UNIVERSIDADE PARA TODOS"

Abstract

The present article deals with the “Universidade para Todos” (UPT) preparatory course for university entrance exam, a project of the Bahia state government, as a popular education movement, which prepares low-income students for access to higher education. It also explains about a social pre-college entrance examination course that started in 2002 at Universidade Estadual da Bahia (UNEB), Campus XII, in Guanambi, Bahia, Brazil, which was the basis for discussions by the State to create the UPT. This is a qualitative analysis based on primary (laws and minutes) and secondary bibliographic sources and open interviews conducted with two founding teachers of the Curso Pre-Vestibular Social de Guanambi. The results show that the UPT project is a popular action that contributes to access to higher education, it was created because of diverse social claims and it had as reference the previous successful experiences.

Keywords

• popular education
• university admission exam
• university for all