ABSTRACT:
The paper discusses the process of expansion of Brazilian higher education, considering the demands of contemporary monopoly capitalism of financial dominance. The text is an exploratory study based on literature and document analysis of converging problems that are necessary to understand the subject by adopting a perspective of analysis that combines quantitative and qualitative aspects. In sequence, the paper discusses the capital globalization process under the financial dominance. The paper discusses how that process affects the Brazilian state and how it has oriented the expansion of higher education in recent decades in Brazil, considering the public and private sectors. Production of commodified knowledge has received a special attention as it has a significant impact in the university institutional culture.
Keywords:
Capital globalization; Higher education; Production of knowledge