A permanência na educação superior do Instituto Federal de Mato Grosso no contexto do plano de desenvolvimento institucional

Abstract

This study is established in the field of educational policies and the theme presents relevance and contribution to the studies conducted by the Group of Studies and Research in Higher Education Policies (GEPDES). The research aims to stay in Higher Education, researched here at the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso in the context of the Institutional Development Plan. The decade of the 1990s in Brazil was marked by an administrative orientation in the public sector with emphasis on the managerial state in which the result became the focus of management. Since then, higher education has been organized so that it is often conditioned to demonstrate its performance indicators. In this context, indicators of permanence in higher education are also developed through the management tool called IDP, which is valid for five years. In this sense, since its creation in 2008, the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso (IFMT) has been using the PDI to guide the institution's action. In the context of permanence the problem to be elucidated focuses on knowing how permanence was, and is organized, in the IFMT IDP? In this sense, the general objective of this study is to understand the use of PDI as a management tool for IFMT's policy of permanence in higher education. The specific objectives are: to identify the IDP as an institutional management tool, to analyze the permanence policies against the IFMT IDP and to analyze the quantitative and qualitative data on permanence in the IFMT, based on data from the Nilo Peçanha Platform. A quantitative and qualitative research approach was drawn up, with the main focus on the IDP, so that the documents were analyzed without neglecting the results of the permanence of IFMT higher education obtained from the Nilo Peçanha Platform. The documentary and bibliographical research related to the elements brought by the State reform from the 1990s, and the introduction of a new management model for higher education was used. The analysis found that the PDI (2009 - 2014) and the PDI (2014 - 2018) were merely descriptive documents and presented guidelines for IFMT operation. However, the current IDP, which covers the period from 2019 to 2023, brought innovations by clearly presenting the institutional objectives, their performance indicators and the permanence goals. And that the IFMT has defined a methodology that allows the monitoring of indicators, which configures them as a management tool. In this context, it was evidenced that the number of vacancies offered by the IFMT for higher education in the state increased through an internalization process. From the perspective of the control bodies, it was proved that the current indicators established by the Federal Court of Audit do not reflect the actual institutional result. From then on the research presented suggestions for changes in the indicators currently used. Towards the end, it is concluded that strengthening the activities of the IFMT Standing and Success Committee and PDI 2019-2023 were indispensable for IFMT to recognize permanence as a priority objective.