This paper analizes the bakground of the current teacher's strike in the Federal institutions of education. Based on resource transfer indicators, it criticizes the Brazilian educational policy and reveals its carelessness as for public universities. It also links this setting to a wide program of educational policy reforms in peripheral countries impelled by international organizations and examines their main connections to the State reform that began under Mr. Cardoso's first government.
Public university; State reform; International policy reform; Educational policy reform