PUBLIC POLICIES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION: THE CASE OF CARIRI CEARENSE

ABSTRACT

This article presents the public policy of expanding Higher Education in the Cariri Cearense, Brazil. To this end, the paper presents the history of Higher Education and its expansion and discusses the specifics of the latter into the semiarid territory. Using a qualitative approach anchored in quantitative data, the study addresses the two main Higher Education institutions that emerged with the expansion, one public and one private, and infers, from the comparison between them, the differences in expansion through public institutions and private educational ones.

Keywords
Higher education; Cariri Cearense; Public policy