Proclaimed and Real Purposes of Policies for Regulation of Access to Higher Education in Brazil (1997-2017)

The article aimed to analyze the purposes of educational policies that reformed the last stage of basic education (high school) and higher education in Brazil, between 1997 and 2017, considering the mode of state regulation established in its relationship with access to education Brazilian public superior. Starting from a Marxian theoretical perspective, we undertook descriptive and explanatory research taking as sources the legal provisions enacted in the period that reformed secondary education and higher education in the period established in the study. The analysis of the proclaimed and real purposes of the devices showed that although there are specific regulations for higher education, access to this level is also impacted by policies relating to basic education, especially secondary education, which is why we infer that the regulation of basic and higher education produced in the period calibrates processes of state regulation of access to higher education. To the extent that they are reforming policies that directly (higher education) and indirectly (secondary education), due to their purposes analyzed here, have an impact on expanding or slowing access to higher education, highlighting societal and educational projects in dispute that, for a certain period, they maintain hegemony by implementing their policies. expanding or slowing down access to higher education, highlighting societal and educational projects in dispute that, for a certain period, hold hegemony by implementing their policies.