As influências do Grupo Banco Mundial no campo da Educação Superior

pautas contemporâneas em torno da avaliação

Abstract

The discussions raised in this text are the result of research on the work of the World Bank Group (WB) in the field of higher education, carried out during the Doctorate in Education course. The author starts from the assumption that the conceptions around the evaluation of higher education in the BM Member States are, partially or totally, outlined by the tensions caused by this organism, through guiding documents published by it. To confirm this hypothesis, the analysis of “What matters most for tertiary education systems: a framework paper” is presented, which was configured as a guiding document for the creation and strengthening of evaluation tools for educational systems. The semantic-categorical analysis of that document pointed to the creation of evaluation mechanisms by the BM, based on the neoliberalization of education, around the following topics: institutional diversification, knowledge economy, participation of the private sector, financing of activities and access and permanence in higher education. It should be noted that this bank-world document is little explored in the Brazilian scientific literature. Therefore, the present time is considered an opportune moment to build new trenches in defense of the idea of public higher education, free of charge, secular and of socially referenced quality. This is what this article proposes.