A acreditação no sistema federal de ensino superior e seus reflexos na rotina institucional da UFJF

Abstract

The federal accreditation system of the Federal Higher Education in Brazil, that controls the regulation and the evaluation of under graduates, was consolidated from the integration of the Law of the National System of Higher Education Assessment (SINAES), Decree number 5773 of 2006 and the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) Ordinance number 40 of 2007, reissued in 2010. These documents fix the parameters and the inputs that should be met so that the Federal Under-graduation System can be provided, both by private and public education establishments, including the federal universities. A close look at that system´s outcomes to the reality of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) revealed that the concept and the operational terms of the federal accreditation system did not take into account its specific features and specialties, being it a special agency and a public university, and adopted an inadequate, overly controlling and reductionist bias.