Constrangimentos socioecômicos no acesso à educação superior no Brasil

Abstract

This study presents the quantitative of the financial resources of the Brazilian Higher Education Institution (HEI) in the period of 1999-2009, put that in perspective in relation to the resources of the GDP and sizing the Brazilian higher education in the year of 2023, the possible final decade of the new National Education Plan (PNE) in discussion on the National Congress. Beside to sizing the resources amount needed in 2023, the study analyzes the social economic profile of the Brazilian population, manly of the young with ages from 18 to 29, and discuss where is the limit established by the reality of the social inequality existing in Brazil, that is imposing constraints to families to keep their children in the HEI, even in the public ones, without the payment of fees. In this way, set up challenges to be faced in order to achieve a gross rate of 50% and a net rate of 33% in Brazilian higher education at the end of the decade of the PNE.