Abstract
In this paper, we analyze the data from Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira/Ministério da Educação on teacher training in Brazil. The data selected for analysis were taken from the synopses provided between 2001 and 2015 and comprise the number of available places, admissions and graduates by undergraduate courses. From the data analysis, we can observe that the number of places available at universities has increased during the period, but teacher-training courses still present low demand and many unfilled places. Physics courses have the lowest number of graduates compared to other courses analyzed. This reality may be influenced by many factors such as high evasion rate and low demand for teacher-training courses.
Keywords
teacher education; teacher-training courses; higher education; evasion
Note: left axis: places and freshmen in the selected teacher-training courses ( TTPln and TTFn) and places and freshmen in other courses (PlOCn and FOCn), both normalized in relation to 2011; right axis: occupation rate of on selected teacher-training courses ( TTF/TTPl) and on other courses ( FOC/PlOC). Source: created from 
Note: left axis: presential places (PPl), distance places (DPl), presential freshmen (PF), distance freshmen (DF); right axis: occupation rate of presential places (PF/PPl) and distance (DF/DPl). All data refer to the selected teacher-training courses. Sources: created from Inep (2017)
Note: left axis (numbers): total of places (TPl) and total of freshmen (TF); right axis (percentage): total occupation of the total of places offered ( TF/TPl) in teacher-training courses of Physics. Source: created from Inep (2017).
Note: ratio between the number of freshmen in each course ( presential and distance) by the number of total freshmen in the selected teacher-training courses ( TF/TFTT) and the ration between the number of graduates in each course ( presential and distance) by the total number of graduates in the selected teacher-training courses ( TG/TGTT). Source: created from