Abstract
This article focuses on the relationship between the evaluation and regulation of Higher Education within the context of the National System of Higher Education Evaluation – SINAES. Tendencies and tensions associated with the said relationship are examined with respect to the first ten years of the National System. The text argues that, although frequently confused with one another, evaluation and regulation represent distinct processes which can be simultaneously complementary and antagonistic. On the one hand, an articulation between the two processes is necessary; on the other, such articulation can generate undesired distortions. The article begins by defining the two concepts and then discusses their applications within the context of Brazilian higher education. In subsequent sections the two processes are considered in relation to the indicators utilized by SINAES and to the proposal to create the National Institute of Higher Education Supervision and Evaluation – INSAES. The article concludes by emphasizing the need for measures to assure the autonomy and independence of each process, evaluation and regulation, in relation to the other.
Keywords
Evaluation; Regulation; Higher education; SINAES