The World Bank and Brazilian Higher Education in the First Decade of the New Century

Authors

  • Kátia Regina de Souza Lima UFF - Niterói - RJ

Abstract

This article analyzes higher education policies promoted by the World Bank in peripheral countries in the 1990s and the first decade of the new century. It found that the central guidelines of these policies (diversification of institutions of higher education, schools and financing sources) were implemented in Brazil by the government of President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva. Higher education has been treated as a business and placed in the hands of public-private partnerships in higher education through management contracts. This process has led to the deconstruction of Brazilian public education as a social right and to the formation of a type of university suitable to the current phase of capital accumulation, particularly in a dependent capitalist country such as Brazil.

Author Biography

Kátia Regina de Souza Lima, UFF - Niterói - RJ

Possui graduação em Serviço Social pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (1986), mestrado em Serviço Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1993) e doutorado em Educação pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (2005). Atualmente é professora adjunto da Escola de Serviço Social e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal Fluminense.

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Published

2011-05-20

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2011): Políticas sociais e questões contemporâneas

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Thematic space

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