Since Act 9394/96, professional education has been going through great changes in Brazil. The higher education technological courses (CSTs) that exist since the seventies have been reformulated to answer the now existing demands of the production sector and to improve the access to higher education. Federal public policies have stimulated professional education in technology, expanding its offering of courses for both undergraduate and graduate studies, as census data can show. This brings up a few questions. What does this expansion mean to the management area? In which way are these courses different from those with a bachelor's degree? What is the importance of analyzing this standard of education? What does this change in Brazilian higher education mean to the country? Taking the previous reflection into account and based on documentary and bibliographical research in secondary data, this article proposes a debate on the possible impacts of this increase in this kind of education itself, in the institutions that offer it and to management education in Brazil. It then presents elements for organizing a research agenda dealing with the expansion of the CSTs in managemen.
higher education courses in technology; professional education; management
