The expansion policy of the higher education: the laborer class goes to the campus

Abstract

This article means to discuss and to opine about some elements that are part of the Brazilian crisis of high graduate studies. Specially direct our attention its process of great expansion and proletariazation that is produced in its inside. The historical and social origins are analyzed by the elitism process of the high education and are recognized the political mechanisms which sent to the private initiative the responsibility for the responsibility for the expansion of this kind of education in the country. It’s also important for us to point the risks of the mass production, the poverty of the teaching work and the challenges that are placed with the arrival of this unusual character in the Brazilian high education scene: the children of the laboring class.