A CONTRIBUIÇÃO DAS UNIVERSIDADES ESTADUAIS (UEs) PARA O ENSINO SUPERIOR NO BRASIL.

An analysis of the participation of the state universities in higher education in Brazil, comparing them with the federal universities, municipal and private institutions in terms of the number of institutions, places, entering students, registrations and graduating students before and after the Law of Directives and Bases of National Education (LDBE). The question is: What is the contribution to the brazilian higher education and what effects the LDBE innovations caused in this sector. We wish to scale this participation, comparing the share of contribution of the state universities with the other segments of the innovations before the general law. The basis are the Census of Higher Education conducted by INEP, analyzing the proportion of relative to the total segment. It was found that the state are the first university institutions that, except in the first decades when the federalization subtracted from some units, until 1996, it expanded its participation with 20% of institutions, 15% of entering students, 17% of registrations, 19% of graduates and 13% of places. Since then, despite the additions, it has reduced its share, and in 2013, 19% of the universities, 5% of the vacancies, 8% of entering students, 13% of registrations and 14% of graduating students, not following the development of the federal universities and, especially, of the private educational institutions, more favoured to changes in legislation, became the largest in that segment. It is concluded that, the participation of the state universities in the Brazilian higher education has experienced sometimes enlargement, sometimes rollback, but always promoting access to higher education of large crosssections of the population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]