Política de assistência estudantil do IFPB: o perfil dos discentes contemplados pelo PNAES em 2013.

Abstract

In this work we study and analyze Higher Education in Brazil, the development of Student Assistance Policy as the democratization of higher education and the development of this policy in the Federal Institutes mechanism. This research aims to analyze the profile of higher education students covered by the Policy Student Assistance IFPB Campus Sousa, checking the socioeconomic conditions of these students, the main difficulties faced by them, as well as the reasons that led them to seek the student assistance programs. The methodology used was the literature and documents, where the work of many authors who discuss the subject were analyzed, as well, and documents relating to student assistance laws. The reflections presented in this paper are exploratory, critical analysis and a quantitative and qualitative approach. The research identified from an analysis of the socioeconomic profile of students of senior courses IFPB - Sousa, that most students do not have contemplated favorable economic conditions to attend that type of education, thus showing the importance of this program for their lives academic. These data proved important with regard to better identify the difficulties present in the daily lives of these students, always with a view to seeking to improve the mechanisms of residence in accordance with the present reality.