Neoliberalismo na educação superior : um estudo de caso a partir do orçamento da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso nos anos de 2019-2022

Abstract

This dissertation, developed within the scope of the Graduate Program in Social Policy of the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), research line Social Policy and Social Rights, aims to analyze the effects of neoliberal policies on public higher education, based on the case study of the UFMT budget from 2019 to 2022. The temporal cut adopted is justified by the occurrence, in the period, of a sanitary and humanitarian crisis that evidenced weaknesses in different dimensions and had a major impact on the budgetary administration of the UFMT. To answer the proposed questions, the research used as theoretical reference the concepts of public fund, by Evilásio Salvador (2010), public budget by Behring (2022), and to support the concept and historicity of public university the concept of Sguissardi (2005) in order to absorb the social and capital progress that culminated in the commodification of education in Brazil. The main data source was constituted by the UFMT's annual budgetary reports.The research results indicate that the successive cuts and contingencies in the transfers of public resources for public universities promoted by neoliberal policies, added to the singularities of the pandemic period, had a negative impact on public higher education. The analysis of the internal distribution of resources and the way in which this transferred resource is constituted allowed us to understand that the neoliberalist policy of anti-science, fundamentalist, militia and militarized experienced in the 4 years of the Bolsonaro government is a setback for civilization and its consequences form scars in the history of Brazilian society. The dissertation concludes that primitive capital accumulation added to neoliberalism and far-right governments have a corrosive impact on public higher education, compromising the quality of teaching, research and university extension.