Desafios do ensino superior para estudantes de escola pública: um estudo na UFLA

Abstract

This article aims to understand the challenges that public school students face in attempting to enter and remain in public universities. For such, questionnaires were responded by students of the Federal University of Lavras and a focus group was conducted with some of them. The results revealed that the public school education has peculiar difficulties for this type of schooling which, in addition to the distance between schools and universities and the lack of information, make the Higher Education a distant reality for most of these students. Despite all obstacles, some of those who finished public highschool succeed in being admitted to Higher Education, since they go through financial problems which require those students to make greater efforts. Consequently, public policy must be in tune with educational policy so that, when getting a job in the labor market, undergraduates will have equal opportunities.