Construction of the regulatory framework for brazilian higher education

This article analyzes the construction of the regulatory framework for Brazilian higher education, considering the changes promoted in the State with the emergence of the New Public Management. Federal normative acts are produced by a diversity of public organs and instances, that act in the regulation and evaluation higher education with a large number of rules being published. For the purpose of the article, normative acts published between 2001 and 2019 were identified and analyzed, aiming to apprehend the movement of construction of this set of norms and the conditions that influenced its current configuration. The study revealed successive changes introduced in the processes of evaluation and regulation of higher education, through the normative framework and its different instruments, demarcating objectives and interests involved in the elaboration and implementation of a public policy.

Keywords:
Higher Education; Evaluation; Regulation; Regulatory framework