Uma análise das políticas de assistência estudantil para alunos estrangeiros da pós-graduação na Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The research seeks to analyze the student assistance policies that the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) offers to foreign graduate students and measure the effectiveness of these actions. The research carries out a survey about the Student Assistance Policies, its history of implementation at the national level and later at the institution level. It presents a description of the trajectory of student assistance in Brazil, broadly, and at UFJF more closely. This work has the general objective of presenting and analyzing the existing student assistance policies at the UFJF, identifying the support of these policies to foreign postgraduate students at the institution and analyzing how the UFJF can improve the reception of these students. The specific objective of this work is to survey and problematize student assistance policies at UFJF, analyzing the main difficulties encountered by foreign students and, based on this analysis, propose the creation or movement of existing student assistance policies. The methodological approach adopted in this dissertation is qualitative, although at times quantitative data have been used to describe the management case. Methodologies of case study, documentary research and bibliographical research were used. The research instrument established for data collection in this study was the questionnaire. Given the research scenario, the proposal for the Educational Action Plan seeks new ways for student assistance to foreign students to be carried out effectively, that is, solving the main needs identified by the students themselves. And if necessary, propose new actions in order to help the development of the internationalization of research at UFJF.