O impacto ideológico neoliberal ao mercado privado de educação superior no Brasil: um panorama a partir do Consenso de Washington

Abstract

Neoliberalism is an ideological phenomenon that has been indispensable for understanding the conduct of economic policy in the periphery and center of capitalism since the 80s. The aim of this paper is to analyze, in a descriptive and exploratory way, the trajectory of Brazilian educational policies under the ideological influence of neoliberalism and financialism, from the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) to the present national situation. The data supporting both the conditions for the expansion of this market and the socio-economic impacts resulting from this process will be taken from the Higher Education Census, a product of the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (Inep). The conclusion is that the current policy of expanding higher education in Brazil needs to be reviewed in order to build a sovereign development project for the country.