Política Pública de Assistência Estudantil do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte: relação dos gastos empreendidos e os índices de evasão escolar dos alunos.

Abstract

The field regarding to the study of public policies has been receiving great visibility around the world, not having a single concept among the most diverse researchers of the corresponding area of knowledge. However, we can define, in a succinct and objective way, that a public policy constitutes a set of actions carried out by the state in order to meet demands proposed by the various interest groups contained in the society. Considering the current Brazilian fiscal and economic situation, with successive revenue frustrations and increases in expenses, resulting in growing fiscal deficits, the concern for an efficient application of public resources by the state is necessary in this scenario, and to evaluate the execution of its public policy is an indispensable tool to achieve this goal. In this perspective, the present study aimed to analyze the amount of financial resources that were applied in the actions implemented by the student assistance policy developed by the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN) over the period 2013- 2017, correlating this variation in expenditures with the respective school evasion rates presented by this institution in the same period. For that, an exploratory, descriptive and quantitative research was carried out using as statistical method. We collected the data in the IFRN data systems: Integrated Federal Financial Administration System (SIAFI), Treasury Management, Integrated System of Administration of General Services (SIASG), Integrated Personnel Administration System (SIAPE), Unified Public Administration System (SUAP), using information from 2013 to 2017. The quantitative analysis of the data was performed through of the statistical software SPSS, whose data were presented in figures. The actions that presented a greater annual representativeness in the period, regarding the application of resources, were the programs of food aid, initiation to work and transport aid in which, in 2017, represented 34.85%, 21.38% and 17.52% of the total spent by the IFRN with its student assistance plan. In the statistical analysis of this relation (Expenses x Evasion), referring to the Pearson correlation coefficients, it is evident that only two of the ten actions considered in the model have a mean correlation. After relating the results obtained through the comparative analysis (expenditures vs. evasion) with the correlation coefficients, it was demonstrated that the actions that present a higher coefficient of correlation present a representative in 2017 of only 0.10% and 6.80% respectively. Finally, through the SPSS Software system, we could figure out that the variation of the financial resources applied in the student assistance policy of the IFRN has no direct relation with the variation of the rate of evasion of the students of this institution.