CONSIDERAÇÕES ACERCA DA REGULAÇÃO E SUPERVISÃO DO ENSINO SUPERIOR NO BRASIL.

The aim of this article is to analyze the evaluation processes instituted by the National Higher Education Evaluation System (SINAES), under the eyes of managers of Brazilian private higher education institutions (HEIs), from various states of the country, who answered a closed questionnaire: deans, directors, deans, institutional prosecutors and course coordinators. The article comes from a research project that analyzed processes of incorporation, merger and acquisition in higher education in the country. Implemented in 2004, the System consists of three main evaluation components: institutions, courses and student performance. Data collection occurred from August / 2017 to March / 2018. The analyzes show the concerns of these managers, derived from the disagreement with the higher education evaluation model applied by the Ministry of Education (MEC). It is concluded that the SINAES is a merely technical instrument and easy to be circumvented in the incessant search for a satisfactory concept to the HEI and the undergraduate course. Finally, we question the need for the public authorities responsible for evaluating the federal higher education system to present to Brazilian society the challenges posed to the sector in contemporary Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]