Quality Control of Vocational Higher Education and Training in Brazil: the Relationship Among Universities, Ministry of Education, Professional Representative Institutions and Labour Market
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0383.2004v25n1p75Keywords:
Vocational education and training, Universities, Professional representative institutions, Labour market.Abstract
This work introduces the Vocational Education and Training - VET, also known as sequential courses, a form of higher education qualification introduced in Brazil in 1999. Due to their recent approval by the Ministry of Education, these courses are still in their initial stages and there are no studies which determine if the specific skills these courses claim to develop, meet the needs of the job market demands which is one of their main objectives according to this Ministry (BRASIL, 1996). This paper aims to discuss the (lack of) relationship among universities, Ministry of Education, professional representative institutions and labour market. The methods used for data gathering consist of review of the existing bibliography and analysis of Brazilian legislation documents, institutional documents and interviews with those responsible for the institutions involved. The results indicate that there is no connection among the four segments that should structure and control the quality of Vocational Education and Training in Brazil, the Ministry of Education, the Universities that offer or do not offer sequencial courses, the federations, the professional representative institutions and the labour market that result in an inefficiency of quality control of the vocational education.
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