O objetivo desse trabalho de pesquisa foi realizar uma análise sobre o impacto institucional na política de acesso à UERJ, a partir da implementação da Lei n. 3542/2000, que destina 50% das vagas para alunos oriundos da rede pública de ensino e da Lei n. 3708/2001, que prevê 40% das vagas para pretos e pardos, com ênfase maior para afro-descendentes. Por meio dela, tive a intenção de contribuir com o debate sobre a agenda de ações afirmativas para a inclusão da população negra na universidade pública brasileira. De certa maneira, as políticas de ação afirmativa (AA) vieram problematizar o conceito de igualdade de direito, edificado a partir de experiências revolucionárias como nos EUA, França, Inglaterra, Índia, entre outros países. Essas políticas foram concebidas com a intenção de não privilegiar determinados grupos, mas assegurar para todos o mesmo tratamento perante a lei. O espaço da universidade escolhido para desenvolver a pesquisa foi o Conselho Superior de Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão (Csepe) e o Conselho Universitário (Consun), duas instâncias fundamentais para a gestão da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, à medida que definem e deliberam sobre as políticas a serem implementadas pela Universidade. Nesses Conselhos, pude ler e analisar Atas das sessões do Csepe e do Consun realizadas no período de 2000 a 2003, assim como pautas das reuniões de ambos os Conselhos no período de 1990 a 2003. Por meio dessa leitura e análise, pude identificar singularidades do processo de gestão universitária, refletindo sobre o quanto os caminhos trilhados podem contribuir para a construção de alternativas de democratização do ensino superior público no país e como instrumento de combate ao racismo. / The goal of this work was to analyze the institutional impact of the Laws of reservation of admission places at UERJ, since the implementation of the Law 3542/2000, which reserves 50% of the admission places for students coming from the system of public education and the Law 3.708/2001 which reserves 40% of the admission places for mixed race and black students, with a bigger emphasis for afro-Brazilians. In this way, to contribute to the debate about affirmative action for the inclusion of the black population to the Brazilian public university. In a way affirmative action policies come to problematize the concept of equity of rights, built on the revolutionary experiences of the USA, France, England and India among others. Those policies were conceived with the intention of not giving special privileges to any particular group, but to secure equal legal treatment to all. The areas of the university selected for this study are the Research Council and Extension and the Higher University Council, two of the most important offices for the management of the UERJ. These two offices define and debate the polices to be implemented by the university. To conduct the analysis this project has reviewed the minutes of both offices from 1990 to 2003. This project attempts to identify the particularities of this process around affirmative action in UERJ, reflecting to the extent that the paths taken could contribute to the construction of democratizing alternatives in the public higher education sector as well as a tool to combat racism.

No Brasil, é indispensável que o debate sobre o acesso ao Ensino Superior público considere a questão da equidade. No presente, as modalidades de seleção têm proporcionado claras vantagens aos setores de maior poder aquisitivo, na medida em que o status socioeconômico dos candidatos influencia de maneira determinante as possibilidades de aprovação nos concursos vestibulares. Procuramos, em primeiro lugar, discutir a ideia de justiça a partir dos escritos de John Rawls e outros para, a seguir, mediante pesquisa empírica, estabelecer o atual quadro de desigualdade nos ingressos no nível Superior. O foco principal é a seleção de alunos à Universidade de São Paulo, e para seu estudo, utilizamos, prioritariamente, os questionários respondidos pelos candidatos que prestam a Fuvest. Em seguida, avaliamos as principais alternativas que se colocam para a redução da desigualdade no acesso, verificando seu alcance e suas limitações, analisando se outras formas de seleção são possíveis e devem ser consideradas. Nesse sentido, sugerimos que se busque a diversificação dos modelos de seleção, de modo a ampliar as possibilidades de descoberta de jovens competentes e talentosos que, pela atual fórmula do vestibular, acabam, em grande parte, sendo impedidos de desenvolver plenamente suas capacidades, ficando alienados da disputa por vagas no Ensino Superior público. / In Brazil, it`s quite necessary that the discussion about access to public Higher Education considers the question of equity. Currently, selection methods provide great advantages for high income families, since applicants socioeconomic status strongly induces the probability of sucess on vestibular tests. At first, we try to discuss the idea of justice from the writings of John Rawls and others, and, after that, to estabilish, by empirical research, the situation of inequality on higher level admissions. The text focus mainly on access to Universidade de São Paulo and, for this study, we rather use questionaries made by Fuvest applicants. Then, we evaluate several alternatives to reduce inequality of access, checking their range and limitations, analysing if other forms of selection are possible and must be taken into consideration. Therefore, we recommend the effort for diversification of forms of selection, to enlarge the chances for finding qualified and talented people that, with no regard for their capacities, remain undercover with vestibular tests, and frequently don`t take part on the competition for admission on public Higher Education.

The aim of the study presented in this thesis was to understand how 16-19 year old students within three different types of educational institution, approached the process of having to 'market' themselves in the context of applying for university places, and why discourses and practices of self-marketing have become more prominent in recent decades. The research focused particularly closely on the role of the Personal Statement as part of the Higher Education application process, and the ways that the particular characteristics and situations of different schools and colleges may shape distinctive self-marketing practices among their students. A multi-case study model was used, in which interviews were conducted with 36 students and various key members of staff, across three institutions and over three successive research phases. This interview data was supplemented by further data gathered from field observation and documentary analysis. The final interview with each respondent used the student's Personal Statement as a resource to explore their self-marketing behaviour in more detail. Drawing on a Bernsteinian theoretical framework it was found that each institution had developed a pedagogy of self-marketing that was strongly embedded within and shaped by the dominant pedagogic code of that institution - both pedagogies being part of an ongoing strategic response to the conditions of the local education market-place. Self-marketing in the context of making applications to Higher Education institutions involved: firstly the recognition of a 'destination habitus' (a combination of institutional status and disciplinary habitus), and secondly the realisation of that destination habitus through the use of particular discourses in the production of the Personal Statement and, in some instances, performance in selection interviews. Crucially, the 'imaginary subject' projected by the dominant pedagogic code of the school/college was a reflection of the 'destination habitus' of the typical university/course that students from that institution in the main applied to. Individual student's orientations to self-marketing were then summarised in, what I have termed, a 'self-marketing profile', which shaped the discourses they deployed on their Personal Statement, and was itself shaped by the institution's pedagogy of self-marketing. The primary conclusion of this thesis is that the far-reaching education reforms of the late 1980s in England and Wales have created market pressures which powerfully constrain both 16-19 institutions and Higher Education institutions to create market 'niches' for themselves, which then significantly influence students' self-marketing practices. These practices are therefore strategic responses both on the part of the institutions that students are currently located in, and also those they are applying to, and demonstrate that the institution 16-19 year olds attend makes a very significant difference to their orientation toward and experience of self-marketing.

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The study explores the impact of Aimhigher activity on the lives of young people looked after and in alternative education. In the background of the mixed messages around the effectiveness of the Aimhigher initiative and its closure of the latter in 2011, it is argued that Aimhigher did, in fact, play a very positive role in the young people’s lives. In view of recent messages that a similar initiative may be under way, it is necessary to understand, and make use of Aimhigher legacy, including critique and best practice. The remit of the scheme was mainly associated with improving social justice through increasing the participation of disadvantaged groups in higher education. However, due to ineffective targeting strategies and flawed monitoring mechanisms, it was not possible to establish a link between heavily funded Aimhigher activity and widening participation trends. Additionally, there was a general scarcity of research literature available on the issues related to Aimhigher and its effectiveness. At the same time, documents produced by Aimhigher partnerships feature positive accounts of pupils and teaching staff. Connections have also been made between Aimhigher activity and potential transformations in the young peoples’ attitudes and behaviour. There is also a small body of literature that highlights the importance of exploring the unexpected and the unintended outcomes of any project. It is argued that an in-depth exploration of individual experiences is needed in order to understand whether Aimhigher had a positive effect on its participants. The exploration is carried out using the resilience framework, which allows the researcher to examine the changes in the young people’s lives over time. Therefore, the Aimhigher experience is understood as a part of the participants’ life trajectories, which are constructed of the young people’s interactions with their environment. Grounding this investigation within literature on resilience and its applications is particularly useful, as there has been an increase in the practitioners’ interest in operationalising the resilience framework. The understanding of the resilience-building mechanisms can be utilised in the design of current and future interventions for those disadvantaged and vulnerable, thus contributing to the strength-based discourse around vulnerability and risk. Interviews were carried out with nineteen young people who were looked after or in alternative education at the time of their Aimhigher participation. In addition, nine professionals from gate keeping organisations were interviewed, all of whom had knowledge of the initiative and the young people. The findings reveal that taking part in Aimhigher activity can act as a protective factor in a young person’s development, thus enhancing their resilient patterns. For several participants Aimhigher acted as an important turning point in their life. However, as resilience is understood as a dynamic complex interaction across several domains, it is the cumulative effect of factors that is crucial. The participants who seemed to be navigating their environments most effectively had the most exposure to developmental opportunities and access to support networks. The study also highlights wider issues around practice and policy on vulnerable young people.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T16:17:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 1Dissertacao Cristini Colleoni.pdf: 933094 bytes, checksum: 52b895260a1ebc350ae996c90b6dd10c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-28 / This master s dissertation is the result of a study of literature and documents related to widening access to higher education policy in Brazil from 1990, which resulted in the creation of programs for this purpose, especially Prouni University Program for All. This program was created during the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), 2010), in the context of new requirements for higher education in the training of workers today. It was sought to understand the reasons that permeated the debate over the democratization of access to university, assuming that they express the contradictions inherent from the reality/society in which they operate. This is because, studying the facts of the creation of the university in Brazil, it was found that it was created to train the elite who should rule the country and act in its modernization process. Thus, the democratization of access to university should be controlled as it should be only for the most qualified. Therefore, the origin of the university in Brazil, aimed at a bourgeois project, based on liberalism, to organize a newly independent country. However, during the twentieth century, from the crises of the capitalist mode of production, governments in developing countries, especially Brazil, sought at the university the quickest way to ensure the training of skilled labor to work in the developmental gait. In this sense, there was a concern to broaden access to higher education by the government, but without the need of the state to meet the cost. Apparently, the university received a new function, to train workers. However, the formation of man came to be defined by the logic of the market, without worrying anymore about the scholarly knowledge, nor the formation of intellectual s elite but with the pragmatic knowledge for maintenance and reproduction of the existing order. In order to widen access to university, the governments of the 1990s and first decade of this century, found in the private sector s their greatest ally. Thus, in the government of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Prouni was considered the cause of the increase of enrollments in private higher education institutions in Brazil. Therein, analyzing the Prouni, it is intended to understand access policies, the process of social change and the transformation for which the society has been through, since 1990, and the impacts they have caused in the state of Paraná and in the city of Cascavel. / A presente dissertação de mestrado resulta de uma investigação bibliográfica e documental relacionada à política de ampliação do acesso à Educação Superior Brasileira, a partir dos anos de 1990, que resultou na criação de programas com esta finalidade, em especial o Prouni Programa Universidade Para Todos, criado durante o Governo de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), 2010), no contexto das novas exigências para a educação superior na formação dos trabalhadores na atualidade. Buscou-se se compreender as razões que permearam o debate em relação à democratização do acesso à universidade, partindo do pressuposto de que expressam as contradições próprias da realidade/sociedade em que estão inseridas. Isto porque, analisando a história da criação da universidade no Brasil, constatou-se que esta fora criada para formar as elites que deveriam governar o país e atuar no seu processo de modernização. Sendo assim, a democratização do acesso à universidade deveria ser controlada, pois, nela, deveriam estar apenas os mais capacitados. No entanto, no decorrer do século XX, a partir das crises do modo de produção capitalista, os governos dos países em desenvolvimento, em especial, o Brasil, buscaram na universidade a forma mais rápida para garantir a formação de mão de obra qualificada para atuar na marcha desenvolvimentista. Neste sentido, houve a preocupação em ampliar o acesso à educação superior por parte do governo, mas sem que o Estado precisasse arcar com as despesas. Ao que parece, a universidade recebeu uma nova função, a de formar os trabalhadores. No entanto, a formação do homem passou a ser delimitada pela lógica do mercado, não mais importando o saber erudito, nem apenas a formação das elites intelectuais, e sim o saber pragmático para manutenção e reprodução da ordem vigente. Com o intuito de ampliar o acesso à universidade, os governos dos anos de 1990 e da primeira década do século XXI encontraram no setor privado o maior aliado. Assim, no governo do ex-presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, o Prouni foi considerado o responsável pelo crescimento das matrículas nas IES privadas brasileiras. Neste sentido, ao analisar o Prouni, pretende-se compreender tanto as políticas de acesso, quanto os processos de mudança social e as transformações pelas quais a sociedade passou, a partir de 1990, bem como suas implicações sobre o acesso ao Ensino Superior no Estado do Paraná e em Cascavel.

This thesis seeks to explore the factors that limit the freedom of choice and access of the Indian community to tertiary level education in Malaysia. Issues of ethnic minorities are of concern for all multi-cultural societies. In Malaysia, it was the indentured labour system, introduced by the British colonial rulers who brought non-Malays into this previously mono-ethnic society. British colonisation has influenced the position of the Indian community in Malaysia in a number of ways, which are explored in this thesis. The aim of this study was to gain an understanding of the complexity of this plural society and its implications for one of its ethnic minority groups, particularly in terms of education. This sector has been examined as education is a fundamental component for socio-economic development and upward social mobility. Malaysia, a classic modern day plural society, has its own complexity in terms of issues of ethnic minorities. The findings of this thesis indicate four main factors limiting the freedom of choice and access to tertiary level education for the Indian community. These factors are the country’s education policies, the financial situation of Indo-Malaysians, the attitude and awareness of the students, and the community’s values. The findings are significant as it is believed that the advancement of the Indian community in Malaysia is currently obstructed through lack of access to tertiary level education. Before this situation can be improved it needs to be understood.

nÃo hà / Desde sua gÃnese, a educaÃÃo superior brasileira vem sendo referenciada como palco das elites. Nas Ãltimas dÃcadas, todavia, polÃticas democratizantes de acesso universitÃrio, ao sugerirem ingresso de discentes menos abastados, anteveem reversÃo desse cenÃrio. Entre as alicerÃadas nos processos seletivos, destacam-se a substituiÃÃo do tradicional vestibular pelo ENEM/SISU e seu ajuste à compulsÃria polÃtica de cotas, que atuam no sentido de diminuir a influÃncia das posiÃÃes de classe nas possibilidades de acesso Ãs IFES, das quais a UFC à parte integrante. Sob uma perspectiva social da educaÃÃo, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo identificar os efeitos que tais mudanÃas nos certames de admissÃo de calouros exerceram sobre os nÃveis de elitizaÃÃo em Ãmbito institucional e dos cursos superiores da UFC. De natureza descritiva e abordagem quantitativa longitudinal, a pesquisa baseou-se na Teoria das Elites de Pareto para estabelecer indicadores numÃricos, denominados Ãndices de elitizaÃÃo, Ãteis à verificaÃÃo de tendÃncias des(elitizantes) no campo acadÃmico. As variÃveis socioeconÃmicas que subsidiaram a obtenÃÃo dos Ãndices disseram respeito à renda familiar; ao tipo de escola de ensino fundamental e mÃdio; e à instruÃÃo paterna e materna do alunado ingressante na universidade nos anos de 2010, 2012 e 2013. Do ponto de vista institucional, os resultados das anÃlises apontaram que a adesÃo ao ENEM/SISU nÃo ocasionou mudanÃa considerÃvel no nÃvel de elitizaÃÃo da UFC. Em momento posterior, o advento das cotas sujeitou-a a uma leve deselitizaÃÃo. PÃde-se deduzir, conquanto, que a deselitizaÃÃo ocorreria de forma mais acentuada se o quesito renda familiar, em vez do tipo de escola de ensino mÃdio, aparecesse como critÃrio principal na seleÃÃo dos cotistas. No que se refere ao primeiro grupo de cursos investigados, os imperiais (Direito, Medicina e Engenharia), verificou-se que tanto o ENEM/SISU quanto o sistema de cotas deselitizou-os quase que na Ãntegra. Jà com relaÃÃo ao outro ajuntamento de cursos, os de licenciatura, observou-se que o ENEM/SISU repercutiu de forma contrÃria à esperada, pois os sujeitou à elitizaÃÃo; Ãs cotas, por sua vez, coube reverter essa tendÃncia elitizante consubstanciada no perÃodo anterior. Neste tÃpico tambÃm foi possÃvel atinar para um efeito acessÃrio advindo da aplicaÃÃo da polÃtica de cotas: o abrandamento da autoexclusÃo; fenÃmeno que distancia indivÃduos mais humildes dos certames de acesso Ãs IES. / Since its genesis, the Brazilian higher education has been referred to as the stage of the elites. In recent decades, however, democratizing policies of academic access, suggesting the inflow of less affluent students, anticipate a reversal of this scenario. Among the policies grounded in the selection process, stands out the replacement of the traditional selection examination for the ENEM/SISU and its adjustment to the compulsory quota policy , which act to reduce the influence of class position in the possibilities of access to the IFES , of which the UFC is an integral part. From a social perspective of education, this study aimed to identify the effects that such changes in the freshmen\\\'s contests of admission had on the levels of gentrification at the institutional scope and of the higher courses of the UFC From descriptive nature and quantitative-longitudinal approach, the research was based on the Pareto\\\'s Theory of Elites to stablish numeric indicators, called rates of gentrification, useful for checking the de(gentrificational) trends in the academic field. The socioeconomic variables that supported the achievement of indexes concerned the family income. type of school of middle and high education; and maternal and paternal education from the entrant student body at the university in 2010, 2012 and 2013. From the institutional point of view, the results of the analysis showed that adherence to ENEM/SISU caused no change in the level of gentrification of the UFC. Thereafter, the advent of quotas subjected to a mild degentification. These results suggest, however, that such process would occur more sharply if the requisite household income, rather than the type of high school, appeared as the main criterion in the selection of the shareholders. With regard to the first group of courses studied, the imperial (Law, Medicine and Engineering), it was found that both ENEM/SISU as the quota system degentificate them almost in their entirety. In relation to the assembly of other courses, degree courses, it was observed that the ENEM / SISU reverberated in a manner contrary to the expected, since subjected them to gentrification; the quotas, on the other hand, reversed this degentificate trend embodied in the previous period. In this topic was also possible to fathom for incidental effect arising from the implementation of quotas: the slowdown of self-exclusion; phenomenon that distance humblest individuals of contests for access to the IES.

Diante da preocupação generalizada em relação à qualidade da educação pública básica e às dificuldades de acesso ao ensino superior público em São Paulo, a presente pesquisa se propõe a analisar as condições educacionais que inibem os estudantes das escolas públicas a terem as universidades públicas como possibilidade ou meta ao prestar o vestibular. Defendese, nesse trabalho, que a ausência de perspectiva em relação ao ensino superior, por parte dos estudantes, é mais do que a simples falta de informação do aluno frente ao vestibular. Trata-se antes de um dos efeitos das ideologias envolvidas na constituição e desenvolvimento do sistema educacional brasileiro. É necessário sublinhar também que a escola pública está se habituando à redução das possibilidades de acesso de seus estudantes ao ensino superior. Para tanto, explorou-se a bibliografia sobre o tema, procurando aprofundar uma discussão teórica e analisar dados estatísticos disponíveis sobre o ingresso nos vestibulares de universidades públicas paulistas. Essa pesquisa permitiu apreender efeitos das políticas públicas até agora empreendidas para o acesso ao ensino superior, tanto aquelas adotadas pelos órgãos governamentais como aquelas geradas pelas próprias universidades públicas. Como meio de aprofundar os significados abertos pela palavra dos sujeitos-alvos dessas políticas e vítimas dessa exclusão, entrevistamos jovens estudantes do 3º ano do ensino médio de uma escola pública paulista a respeito das suas ambições escolares e das suas expectativas de ingresso no ensino superior. / Considering widespread concerns about the quality of the public elementary educational system and about the dificulties to access higher education in São Paulo, this research intends to analize the educational conditions that inhibit students of public schools from seeing public universities as their goal when trying to access higher education. This research defends that the student\'s absence of perspectives relating to higher education is more than a simple result of the lack of information about the selective process that leads to the public university. We believe it is only one of the many effects of the ideologies involved in the constitution and development of the brazilian educational system. It is also important to underline that the public school is becoming used to the idea that its students will not have the opportunity to access public higher education. To defend these arguments, we have explored the relevant bibliography on the issue, trying to deepen the theoretical discussion and to analize statistical data available about admission in selective processes to public universities in São Paulo. This research allowed us to apprehend the effects of public policies developed by governmental institutions and by public universities regarding the access to higher educational system. Trying to deeply understand the meanings involved in the discourse of those to whom these policies where created and who are the victims of this process of exclusion, we have interviewed young students of a public school in São Paulo about their educational ambitions and their expectations of accessing higher education.

A pesquisa tem como objeto empírico o Programa Universidade para Todos (ProUni), implementado no ano de 2005, em nível federal, no governo de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Foi empregada a metodologia qualitativa na análise tanto das entrevistas quanto dos questionários aplicados com cinquenta bolsistas de instituições privadas de ensino superior e cursos distintos da cidade de São Paulo. Como técnica para reconstrução das evidências empíricas, utilizou-se o estudo de caso. Buscou-se uma abordagem sociológica do Programa Universidade para Todos, no sentido de compreendê-lo diferentemente de outras pesquisas e estudos que enfatizam, estritamente, seu caráter privatizante sem considerar e, também, integrar, outras dimensões como as vicissitudes do acesso e da permanência de jovens de baixa renda provenientes do ensino médio público, as particularidades dos processos seletivos, a emergência de um novo perfil social de estudante universitário, a reconstrução histórica e a metamorfose recente pela qual passa o setor privado de educação superior e como esta mudança se articula com o surgimento do ProUni, a pouca permeabilidade do ensino superior público às demandas legítimas desses trabalhadores-estudantes que constituem o grosso dos bolsistas, a reflexão sobre a qualidade da maior parte das instituições participantes e suas relações com o processo de democratização do acesso em curso, dentre outros elementos. A natureza do objeto exigiu traçar, em perspectiva histórica, a constituição e consolidação do que qualifico como ensino superior privado lucrativo brasileiro e, também, avançar na compreensão da recente metamorfose desse segmento, que desde o fim da década de 90 e início dos anos 2000 vem ganhando nova configuração com a atuação de grandes grupos nacionais e internacionais. A parte analítica dos dados obtidos com a aplicação das técnicas de investigação orientou-se pela articulação de quatro eixos temáticos com o objetivo de reconstruir as condições familiares e de trabalho, bem como as experiências de acesso e permanência dos bolsistas no ensino superior privado lucrativo. A sistematização dos pontos convergentes e divergentes entre os pesquisados permitiu captar as singularidades desses estudantes, o que propiciou, assim, visualizar nuances nessa política pública que, regularmente, é vista de forma homogênea e, muitas vezes, acriticamente. Ao longo da tese, são destacados vários aspectos heterogêneos que marcam os percursos dos bolsistas: apreensão de características socioeconômicas diferenciadas entre os estudantes, tipos distintos de instituições em que os alunos estudam, formatos díspares dos cursos que frequentam, dentre outros elementos. Os dados empíricos coligidos e analisados sugerem diferenças importantes entre três subgrupos de bolsistas (bacharelandos, licenciandos e tecnólogos), com acentuada positividade para os bacharelandos no que se refere à formação escolar, origem social e econômica, bem como condições culturais. Assim, esse subgrupo de entrevistados acessa cursos e universidades mais prestigiados quando se compara com os outros dois agrupamentos formados pelos licenciandos e tecnólogos, estes em posições sociais mais desvantajosas. / The empirical research examines the University for All Program (ProUni), implemented in 2005, at the federal level, under the president Lula da Silva administration. Qualitative methodology was used in the analysis of both the questionnaires and interviews with fifty scholars from private institutions of higher education and different courses in the city of Sao Paulo. The case study was use as a technique for reconstruction of empirical evidence. It was sought a sociological approach in the analysis of University for All Program in order to understand it in a different perspective than other surveys and studies, which ones focus strictly in its \"privatization\" aspect without considering and also integrating other dimensions, for example, the vicissitudes of access and the persistence of low-income youth coming from the public high school, the specifics of the selection processes, the emergence of a new social profile of a undergraduate student, the recent historical reconstruction and metamorphosis through which passes the higher education private sector and how this change articulates with the emergence of ProUni, the low permeability of the public higher education to the legitimate claims of working students who constitutes the majority of scholarship, the reflection on the quality of most of the institutions and their relationship to the process of ongoing \"democratizing access \", among other elements. The nature of the subject required to draw, in a historical perspective, the creation and consolidation of what I define as for-profit private higher education in Brazil and also to advance the understanding of the recent metamorphosis of this sector, which since the late 1990s and early 2000s was gaining new configuration with the participation of large national and international groups. The analytical part of the data obtained through the use of investigative techniques guided by the articulation of four thematic axes in order to rebuild the family and working conditions as well as the experiences of access and retention of scholars in for-profit private higher education. The systematization of the convergent and divergent points among the respondents allowed to capture the singularities of these students, which provided nuanced views on this public policy which regularly is regularly seen in a homogenous and often uncritically way. Throughout the thesis, multiple heterogeneous aspects are highlighted which mark the paths of scholars: seizure of distinguished socioeconomic characteristics among students, distinct kinds of institutions in which they study, disparate formats of the courses they attend, among other elements. The empirical data suggest important differences among subgroups of three scholars (undergraduate students in specific license for education, undergraduate and technicians students), with accentuated benefit for the undergraduate students with regard to their educational background, social and economic origin, as well as cultural conditions. Thus, the undergraduate students subgroup accesses courses and most prestigious universities as compared to the other two subgroups, those in more disadvantaged social positions.