Abstract

CABRITO, Belmiro Gil  and  CASTRO, Alda Maria Duarte Araújo. THE PATHWAYS OF THE EXPANSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN BRAZIL AND PORTUGAL: CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES. Eccos Rev. Cient. [online]. 2021, n.56, e11156.  Epub Feb 05, 2024. ISSN 1983-9278.  https://doi.org/10.5585/eccos.n56.11156.

The article analyzes the expansion of higher education in Brazil and Portugal seeking to identify the convergences and divergences that have occurred as a consequence of the policies adopted in each country to increase coverage by this level of education. The article assumes that the need for expansion by higher education occurs in the context of the economic and social transformations of the last decades of the twentieth and beginnings of century twenty-first, which led to the establishment of new standards of competitiveness, the intensive use of communication and information technologies that provoked the inversion of the concept of State that until then was prevalent in the organization of the capitalist society. The collection data had as reference, in Brazil, the Synopsis Statistics elaborated by INEP, on higher education and, in Portugal, the Database Portugal Contemporary (PORDATA). Internationally, data from the World Conference of Higher Education (UNESCO) were used too. The results show that the expansion of higher education took place in both countries, but it preserves significant economic, social and political differences among them, and they are based on historical conditions, which were determined by the position that the countries occupy within global capitalism.

Keywords : Higher education; Higher education expansion; Educational policies..

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