Abstract

GUERRA, Lenin Cavalcanti Brito; FERRAZ, Rita Maria Correia  and  MEDEIROS, Jássio Pereira de. Evasion in higher education of a Federal Institute of the Brazilian northeast. Rev. Elet. Educ. [online]. 2019, vol.13, n.2, pp.533-553.  Epub Jan 01, 2020. ISSN 1982-7199.  https://doi.org/10.14244/198271992529.

In Federal Institutes (Brazil), the annual evasion vary from 24% to 26%, which may reach, after three years, more than 70% of its entrants. This reality has been detected in the Technology in Public Management Degree Course offered by a Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology in the Brazilian northeast, where, in some classes, evasion rates has reached up to 77%. Despite this scenario, the accumulated systematized knowledge about the evasion in Brazil is still scarce, especially how it affects Technology Degree Courses. As a means of contributing to this kind of research, this work analyzes the reasons that somehow contribute to the evasion in the Technology in Public Management Degree Courses of the Federal Institute. It is an exploratory-descriptive research, with quantitative approach, whose data have been collected by primary source (questionnaires) and secondary sources. In the universe of 263 evaded and canceled students, 37% replied to the survey instrument. The results have shown that students’ average age was 31; that 49% of them were taking their second graduation course; that 47% were public servants and 59% attended private schools. The research has shown that both the difficulties to handle work and studies simultaneously and the difficulties to manage more than one graduation course are the main facts that cause the school drop-out. The studied occurrences didn’t present relation to vocational factors or academic matters as a cause for evasion.

Keywords : Evasion; Higher education; Public management.

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