Educação profissional no âmbito de uma instituição de ensino superior: uma proposta de regulamentação

Abstract

Professional Education, Basic Education modality is also offered by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) through its four Specialized Academic Units (SAUs); Escola Agrícola de Jundiaí (EAJ), School of Music (EMUFRN), School of Health (ESUFRN) and Instituto Metrópole Digital (IMD) that has thus carried out Technical Courses in Medium Level. Furthermore, there is in the organizational structure from Rectory, the Secretariat of Basic, Technical and Technological Education (SBTTE), executive body responsible for planning, monitoring and evaluating policies, projects, programs and activities carried out within the scope of UFRN's Basic, Technical and Technological Education Units in order to assist them in matters related to the academic and administrative processes inherent to the feasibility of these courses, as well as to the other executive and administrative bodies of UFRN. Inserted in this context, this study has presented a diagnosis regarding the regulation of Professional Education in the scope of UFRN, with the objective of proposing a regulation for the Technical Courses of Medium Level. To this end, institutional and external documents were studied analyzed information and data generated by means of two structured questionnaires with closed questions addressed to the professionals who have operationalized the academic and administrative processes in these SAUs. Therefore, the content analysis is embodied in a documentary study and descriptive statistics in the light of a legal concept (Legitimacy), a principle of Law (Legal Security) and four principles of Public Administration (Legality, Morality, Efficiency and Advertising), constituting a pillar on which the design of the proposed product is based.