A formação acadêmica de estudantes beneficiários/as da assistência estudantil: o acesso ao tripé ensino, pesquisa e extensão na UFBA em 2020

Abstract

Faced with the national reality of dismantling Public Higher Education and increasing social inequality, exacerbated by the pandemic, this work, focusing on the issue of quality/permanence, sought to analyze how the Academic Training of students benefiting from Student Assistance (SA) is taking place at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), taking access to the Teaching, Research and Extension (TRE) tripod as the main quality criterion.. Initially, through bibliographical research, a survey of studies on the subject was carried out, which helped to delimit the research object. In the field phase, respecting the historical-dialectical materialist method, the analysis was divided into two stages: legal and material. In the first one, a mapping of TRE activities developed by UFBA was carried out, on websites and notices of specific Dean's Offices, seeking to identify their levels of articulation with SA actions. Then, a questionnaire was applied to students about their socioeconomic profile and their access to tripod activities. We also analyzed factors such as access to EPE scholarships, course completion time, academic performance, self-assessment of learning and tripod access, and the possibility of dropping out as auxiliary elements. The lack of access to the tripod and to TRE scholarships were shown as disqualifying factors in the Academic Training of the assisted students, who are mostly black. Thus, it was found necessary to adopt measures that articulate the SA actions to the tripod to raise the quality of training and combat socio-racial inequalities. However, the lack of articulation between these actions reflects the recurrent budget cuts in public higher education, which have reduced the quality of Academic Training, expressing the contradictory character of social policies in capitalism, which advances the social functions of the State at the expense of destruction of the rights of most of the population that continues to be pushed to barbarism.