HIGHER EDUCATION IN MUNICIPAL EDUCATION PLANS

This text aims to discuss how the Municipal Education Plans (MEPs) of Jatai and Mineiros - tonws located in the southwest of Goias - approach Higher Education, considering the democratization and social quality of this level of education as analytical categories. Through documental research, based on the texts of the MEPs of the mentioned municipalities, their monitoring reports and the national monitoring of the National Education Plan and the help for organizing the data of the IRAMUTEQ software were systematized in word clouds to identify the occurrence of expressions that dialogue with the objective of the study on screen. As a result, it is concluded that access to documents is limited in the municipalities, the word democratization and its derivations are not among the main ones in the word clouds, pointing to the valorization in the speech, but the null mention in the goals and strategies about Teaching Superior in the MEPs studied; municipal data also point to the prevalence of private institutions of higher education, putting into question the social quality of education offered at this level and, aware of the role of municipalities in the provision of higher education, the relevance of this federative entity in the organization and promotion of the teaching stage.