Retenção e evasão: uma avaliação do impacto social da política pública de cotas, em cursos da área da saúde da Unipampa

Abstract

ARS CoV - 19 Syndemic, this is something that stopped and provided reflections around the world, because it was in this context that we started this research, this cycle of studies, no one imagined that such a drastic change would happen in our society. The reflections carried out during this period led us to think about necessary changes in education, among these changes and some that occurred, there are, for example, technological tools at school, which during the pandemic, teachers were forced to use, even without knowing for sure what we were experiencing, nor what tomorrow would be like. Within these aspects of change, over the last ten years we have experienced several processes related to public policies on access to higher education, including university quotas, as a way of including students within universities. These quotas are dedicated to students, the majority of whom are low-income and black, and who, during the pandemic, were extremely harmed due to an education not prepared to serve them, or due to evasion and abandonment of school benches, to the detriment of work. to be able to help the family. This research consisted of analyzing the factors that lead students on health courses to drop out and be retained at Unipampa, contributing to society, especially the University, analyzing situations encountered by incoming students through affirmative actions, seeking to respond to following proposition: Is there a difference between retention and dropout rates between quota and non-quota students on Unipampa undergraduate courses in the health area? As a methodology, we present, in general, a bibliographical survey to provide all the theoretical support for this research, as well as developing an article, which uses state-of-the-art methodology, and another manuscript that analyzes in a quantitative and qualitative way the data on evasion and retention. With regard to quantitative analyses, the data were obtained from information from the database of the GURI system (Unified Management of Institutional Resources) and SIE (Teaching Information System), at the Uruguaiana Campus secretariat. We also use public information on the Unipampa website. Analyzing the data, the thesis revealed that the course with the highest dropout rate is the Pharmacy course, and that it is necessary to seek reflection and action on the dropout and retention of quota students, especially, which proved to be higher in number than non-quota students. , making it important to develop discussions on the topic.