The present work discusses the framework of scientific policies for graduate education in the Brazilian context in view of the modes of subjectivization engendered for university researchers/lecturers. Privatization, specialization and individualization seem to constitute three main dimensions of these policies establishing collective identifications and actions conducive to an acceptance of the status quo, and to an attitude of 'reconciliation' with the system of scientific development in the country. The paper evokes the place of the intellectual, as seen by Russell Jacoby and Edward Said, as a necessary counterpoint to the academic task which has become engulfed today by policies of good management. Two issues are brought forward to illustrate the argument: the relation of graduate with undergraduate courses and the internationalization of graduate education.
scientific policies; individualization; privatization; specialization
