O papel da educação superior no desenvolvimento regional: estudo de caso da UniCerrado

Abstract

This research is divided into three main chapters. In the first chapter, public development policies were addressed, which generally arise in the face of problems and needs of a given society, in order to seek greater social well-being. It was elaborated from an exploratory research in order to understand the importance of public policies, to study some policies that aimed to promote a more egalitarian development between the regions, such as the superintendencies of the Amazônia, the Midwest, the South and the Northeast, and also the National Policy for Regional Development. The hypothesis started from the assumption of the need for State intervention for development. It is concluded that development is mainly based on disparities and that it is a function of the state to intervene through policies so that there is better redistribution in the development of the regions. The second chapter portrays Brazilian higher education and its influence on regional development. It is an exploratory research that, with the objective of surveying programs that contributed to the expansion of higher education in Brazil and making a bibliographic study of how Universities can be propelling agents of local development, the hypotheses were that HEIs promote multidirectional development. Higher education was concluded and universities should be the focus of public policies, mainly aiming at expansion, and greater access for the population, and that from 2009 to 2019 there was a 12.7% increase in the number of HEIs in Brazil, as a result of the programs of incentive to the expansion and expansion of Higher Education, PROUNI, SISU, REUNI, FIES, EAD. Finally, the last chapter, which is an exploratory research with a case study, the Centro Universitário de Goiatuba, to which observations and data collection were made to verify possible influences of this IES to its surroundings and to verify the opinion of the citizens regarding these influences with Likert scale application. The objectives are to compare local development indices of the city of Goiatuba with indices of two neighboring cities, Morrinhos and Bom de Jesus de Goiás, which were chosen to have parameters of two other cities that do not have Higher Education Institutions, are close to the city. of case study, another parameter was to choose a city with a larger population and another one smaller than Goiatuba. Another objective was to understand the view of the citizens regarding the influences of the HEI in the locality. The hypothesis arose from the assumption that the university city has higher rates of collection that can provide development. And it was concluded that over the years with the arrival of new courses at the institution, the city's development rates have increased and the research participants understand that the economic and social influences of Unicerrado are perceived positively and the environmental issue is still in a median zone, making it possible to focus on future public policies.