Abstract:
This paper, based on studies of specialist and legal documents on the theme and in interface with the personal experience of the author, aims at empirically analyzing some issues about how ethics passes through the process of external evaluation of higher education in Brazil. The focus is more specifically on the processes of recognition and renewal of recognition of a program and on how this relates to the teaching staff of the Higher Learning Institution (IES). To be highlighted is the National System of Evaluation of Higher Education (SINAES), better identified as an instrument of regulation and control, specific of a regulator organ which is the Ministry of Education (MEC), demanding the fulfillment of the general standards of this regulation by all the IES without considering regional, cultural, economic, religious or social differences. How does this model of evaluation and regulation contribute so that the Institutions of Higher Learning become ever more professional in a broad sense and more market competitive? What are the consequences for higher learning of a national evaluation system which favors large institutions, forgetting the diversity of our country and mainly its cultural, social and economic specificities?
