PUBLIC POLICIES OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN BRAZIL: A VIEW ON ACCESS AND SOCIAL INCLUSION

This article it's fruit of a qualitative research of the bibliographic type that proposes to discuss the historical course of public policies of Higher Education in Brazil with a focus on the expansion and interiorization of this level of education. It problematizes some of the implications of the same through the survey of references on the subject in academic publications and official texts. The results point to a significant investment in the expansion of access that culminated with the significant increase of vacancies in public and private institutions reaching a previously excluded public and weaknesses regarding the necessary support for the permanence and guarantee of learning of these students. Due to the historical deficit in the access to Higher Education in the country, it is concluded that it is necessary to maintain this expansion, coupled with student assistance programs that guarantee the necessary support for the academic process and professionalization of university students.