Expandir sem democratizar: da expansão privado/mercantil da educação ao mito da democratização do acesso ao ensino superior em Moçambique

Abstract

This article aims to reflect about the higher education expansion model in Mozambique in the last ten years (2004-2014). We seek the same, demonstrate what is forged in the country over the last decade, a higher education expansion model marked by the growing predominance of private / mercantile interests, defying state regulation of public character and lead us to question the myth that , growth and expansion of higher education in Mozambique are synonymous with democratization of access to higher education for all Mozambicans, regardless of their social and economic statement. To reflect on the statistics of higher education in Mozambique (regarding the number of top public and private educational institutions and number of enrolled in each of them), we will use analytical categories such as expansion and democratization brought by Alfredo de Sousa (1996), education / merchandise and merchandise / education referenced by Valdemar Sguissardi (2008) and finally show how this expansion model affects and distorts the functions of the university mentioned by Teixeira (1969, 1998), and emphasizes the predominance of a market model for profitable purposes in the national education market, which makes the democratization of access to higher education a very distant myth happen in the lives of excluded and vulnerable populations of Mozambican society.