Abstract
From the Program of Support to Restructuring and Expansion Plans of Federal Universities (REUNI), 2007, UFBA expands from 2 to 33 evening courses, increasing to 9000 students this turn, in 2013. The present study aims to know the students’ perception about evening higher education. Among the bases of studies that support this research are Arroyo, Furlani e Terribili Filho, who discuss, respectively: evening courses for workers from popular classes; challenges and facing of pedagogical proposes; teaching methods; and public policies. The research makes use of the qualitative methodology, from a ethnomethodological approach, and is based on techniques of questionnaire application, individual interviews and focal groups. The survey results showed that students perceive UFBA’s evening higher education as fragmented and incomplete, where, at the expense of research and extension, education presents itself as the only role of the university in this turn. In addition, the statements verify structural problems in the night operation of the institution that compromise the access to the internal services that it offers. From these results we propose some alternatives for changes that may contribute to the management and planning of the university through democratizing access.
University; Evening higher education; Students; Public policy