Os impactos do ajuste fiscal na política de Pós-Graduação: um estudo sobre as particularidades da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Abstract

This dissertation proposes a debate on the impacts of the fiscal adjustment on postgraduate policy, considering the Sixth National Postgraduate Plan (PNPG) as the guidelines for the materialization of this policy through its directives, strategies and targets. It therefore includes a study of the effects on the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), specifically in the context of postgraduate studies. The specific objectives of this work are as follows: to review the literature on fiscal adjustment, science and technology and postgraduate studies; to identify the impacts of fiscal adjustment in the context of postgraduate studies, considering macroeconomic analysis based on documentary analysis of data extracted from the Center for Studies on Society, University and Science (SoU_Ciência), the Multi-Year Plan (PPA) and Siga Brasil; and finally, to analyze the budgets of the UFRN in the face of counter-reform processes with regard to postgraduate studies. In order to achieve the results, the research used a documentary and bibliographic survey in the light of historical-dialectical materialism, of a quantitative and qualitative nature, considering the perspective of totality when analyzing the information obtained. The results indicate that the impacts of the fiscal adjustment have a direct impact on postgraduate policy in Brazil, especially in the functioning of the country's public universities, such as UFRN.