ABSTRACT:
Our “Palavra Aberta” on the Unified Selection System (SiSU) starts from the following point of view: the system centrally offers and allocates an extremely valued asset: vacancies in public institutions of higher education. As such, it was assumed that the objectives contained in its regulations would be relatively safe to attain. Eight years after its implementation, this is not the case. From the sociological point of view, it is not really a novelty, as Boudon, Merton and Giddens state. These would be the “unintended effects of intentional actions” (HIGGINS, 2011, p.258), which makes investigations about the failures and challenges of the system very relevant. Thus, we examine here some restrictions and conflicts that affect the agents involved in the process, and we risk, in the end, a more radical suggestion for the challenges currently encountered in the system’s implementation. The perspective supporting these reflections comes from the search for the democratization of higher education, based on precepts of social justice.
Keywords:
SISU; Higher education access; Democratization of higher education