Expansion of higher education: notes on their limits and social possibilities

Abstract

This article addresses the subject of the expansion of higher education in Brazil in the context of the governments of the Workers' Party. Educational policies are analyzed in order to show the limits and the possibilities that the expansion of college education presents to the working classes, whose objectives of access to knowledge and emancipation do not agree with the objectives of the economic and social context aligned with international economic interests The laws highlight the social contradictions of a deeply unequal society and, in the correlation of forces, the private sector is gradually advancing in defense of its interests. The expansion expresses many possibilities and, at the same time, the limits imposed by the determinations of international funds.