Política de cotas e ações de permanência e êxito do IFG: como os cotistas do ensino médio se inserem nelas?

Abstract

The quota, implemented in universities and federal institutes by Law 12.711 / 2012, determines the reservation of 50% of the vacancies in all courses for students graduating from the public school system. Considering schooling as everyone's right, the importance of affirmative actions to guarantee this right to historically excluded plots and the problem of permanence and student success linked to school dropout, this research proposed the investigation of the problem in the form of the following questions: How students Are quota holders included in the problem of IFG's permanence and success, taking CTIEMEd students from the Anápolis, Aparecida de Goiânia and Goiânia campuses as a study unit? Do quota holders, in fact, represent the largest contingent in terms of withdrawal from those in the universal system? Does the institution adopt measures to face the withdrawal of quota students? If so, which ones? The research, of the case study type, based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of historical dialectical materialism, was developed based on the documentary analysis of the following documents: “Student data spreadsheet” (with information referring to the years 2013 to 2019) and “Summary of the IFG Intervention Plan for Permanence and Success. The results found were: (i) the quota holders presented different situations in the aspects that involve permanence and success (exit, conclusion and bond) in each studied campus, but without significant discrepancies in relation to those of the universal system; (ii) the numbers revealed high dropout rates within the two groups analyzed, which allowed us to conclude that quota holders are not “the” problem of permanence and success, but that all students demand concern about their exit; (iii) the institution adopts measures to face evasion, without, however, distinguishing groups that present more or less need for intervention. It was possible to evaluate that, from the ideal point of view, they are adequate, but, from a practical point of view, further research is needed that covers their materialization in action; (iv) the data revealed that the vacancies destined to quota holders are not fully occupied, presenting itself as a finding of the research that deserves investigation in other surveys. As an educational product, a digital booklet directed to 9th grade public school students (target audience of IFG high school quotas) is presented, in the form of HQ Comics, in which information about the Quota Law and requirements is presented to apply for the vacancy at the IFG.