This article comes from two researches about researchers and professionals in higher education in the Postgraduate Education training policy in two countries, Portugal and Brazil. From the methodological point of view, we analyze the differences and similarities. We use the comparative historical-critical method to detect the discrepancies in the two countries and, in particular, within the Program of Postgraduate Stricto Sensu in Education. It seeks to understand some issues that emerge from the comparison and presents a comparative methodological view on the subject of the researchers training policies . In Brazil, the productivity, which is a principle category in business logic, invaded the academic and educational fields as a whole, developing an unprecedented need for production in the history of Brazilian education. In Portugal, and what can be analyzed from the changes in the parameters of the Bologna Process, the research at the postgraduate level has been primarily influenced by the national agency called Science and Technology Foundation. Thence come the conceptual syntheses presented.
Researchers training policy; Professionals in education; Comparative methodology