Avaliação das condições da oferta dos cursos da Rede E-Tec Brasil: uma proposta possível

Abstract

This study presents the systematization of data and information on vocational education in Brazil currently considered as the main theme of the policies of the Ministry of Education – MEC, as an initiative that is in agreement with the media appeal about the existence of a manpower blackout in the Brazilian labor market. This is the Brazil e-Tec Network, a strategy adopted by the government for qualifying employees, constituting an act of encouragement and support to technical courses in the distance mode expansion, which involves public institutions of professional and technological on federal and intrastate sphere. It reflects on the significant growth of enrollments in technical courses and budgetary support that increases every year, proportionally to the number of enrollments for financing institutions, indicating that despite the massive public resource applied, there is no evaluation by MEC in order to measure the strategy efficiency to ensure the effectiveness of this investment. It presents the systematization of data and information on professional education in Brazil, especially the conditions evaluation of the courses offered from Brazil e-Tec Network, contextualized in the Secretary of the State of Pernambuco, enabling the strengths and weaknesses raisings of its courses, particularly referring to the teaching and learning process as well as subsidies to remedy possible distortions detected. The research allowed an examination of the concrete reality, with questionnaires involving students, coordinators, tutors and teachers from the courses. The results brought important contributions, since the issues discussed involved different components: courses, pole and disciplines where each evaluator provided important information for the understanding of problems studied. The expectation is that this study should provide significant contributions for raising the supply conditions of all courses offered by Brazil e-Tec Network.