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Interrupted inclusion? Higher education in Brazil in the beginning of the 21st century

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the recent evolution of the access of the Brazilian population to higher education as well as the profile of students considering a set of public policies directed to higher education. The data show that, from 2001 to 2015, there was an increase in the representation of black students, as well as an increase in the number of students in Federation Units outside the South-Southeast-Brasilia axis and the percentage of low-income students. Additionally, the article discusses that the process of inclusion may be threatened by austerity policies, especially the Constitutional Amendment 95.

Keywords:
Inequality; Higher education; Public policies; Austerity

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