Desenvolvimento e pós-graduação: Uma análise da visão contida no Plano Nacional de Pós-Graduação (PNPG) brasileiro

Abstract

The main objective of this research is discuss the relationship between development and graduate from development strategies suggested in the five documents that rules the National Plan for Graduate Studies (PNPG). These plans are part of the Brazilian science and technology policy and had their first version published in 1975, the last edition published in 2011 and it provides the graduate’s guidelines in the country up to 2020. The methodological procedure used was content analysis, directed in a more detailed way to four categories of analysis: science, technology, graduate and development. The idea that the advancement of science and technology means to overcome underdevelopment and achieve progress is present in the policy adopted in all the analyzed documents. It is quite evident that the perception of this development in PNPG turns to integrate the activities of graduate to the enterprise system, seeking innovation and use of technology to become more competitive in the international market, valuing science for its productive force. The data shown throughout this study indicate that there has been no progress in social development as significant, despite the growing investment in S & T. Proof of this is that between 2000 and 2012 expenditures for the graduate grew 389%, while in the same period Brazil's HDI increased by only 8%.