O Colégio de Aplicação Coluni: política de ação afirmativa x excelência no ensino

Abstract

The demand for equity in the admission to public education, mainly at undergraduate level, has been receiving the attention of our congressmen since the end of the last decade. Notwithstanding the universalization of basic education in public schools, it has brought with it the deterioration of the quality of the teaching. In 2012, a law on social and racial quotas in education was endorsed by the government. Social movements together with several initiatives from the higher education institutions were the main parties responsible for such change. The Academic High School of the University of Viçosa – COLUNI/UFV – is one of a few, in a group of seventeen high schools belonging to federal universities, that keep on providing high quality education offered by public institutions. To gain access to this institution, one must apply to and go through a selection process, and as a policy to promote equity in education, every student from public schools are offered a 15% bonus during the selection process. In the present study, we look into the origins of these affirmative acts in the Brazilian education, regarding the law on social and racial quotas as well as the application of different selection process of several high schools. Also, we made use of interviews and analysis of secondary data, to address the use of the bonus policy established by COLUNI / UFV, and the students submitted to their selection processes from 2012 to 2015. At last, we proposed an act regarding the analysis of the results from the bonus policy applied by COLUNI/UFV, as stated in the law 12711, introduced in 2012.