They threw the baby away but kept the bath water

the austerity that dismantled Fies

Abstract

The changes in Fies reveal the existence of four phases in the implementation of the university credit program subsidized by the federal government. More than adapting theory and premises to reality, there was a change in the paradigms that guided the program. Under the justification of fiscal responsibility and based on a shallow and limited economic analysis, the post-2015 austerity policy had major impacts on Fies. This work aims, from the main aspects of the changes, as well as their foundations, to understand whether the dismantling of Fies was planned, contextualizing the changes from the point of view of the advantages obtained by private educational institutions and the aspect of expanding access to the University education. Thus, it was demonstrated that the problems and criticisms pointed out since the beginning of the program were only deepened by the reforms built, making Fies an unreachable program (for the most vulnerable classes) or uninteresting (for those who have alternatives) regarding entry into education. higher, dismantling public policy.