Higher Education and Public Policies

a look at university education

Abstract

It is undeniable that Public Policies for Higher Education have helped thousands of young and high school graduates from the low-income public school system to achieve the dream of entering a university course. They are welfare policies that are widely criticized by some sectors of society, but without which it would be very difficult for this portion of the population to have access to this level of education. Given this statement, this paper aims to analyze the scientific production on the theme "Higher Education and Public Policies: a look at university education" in the SciELO Electronic Library (Scientific Electronic Release On Line), from 2010 to 2019. Understand what has been produced about higher education in Brazil, types of authorship, amount of work on the topic per year, area of formation of the authors and what themes have been addressed in the research conducted concerning the problem.