A educação continuada na gestão universitária: o caso do mestrado profissional em políticas públicas e gestão da educação superior (POLEDUC)

Abstract

The Masters Professionals have as main objective to equip workers cognitive tools and practices to adequately perform activities in the organizations in which they work. The Federal University of Ceará (UFC), congregates strategic management, thereby creating in 2005 a Masters in Public Policy and Management in Higher Education (POLEDUC), aiming present planning processes and innovative management that would boost the academic and administrative UFC, to improve its educational policies and management with efficient mechanisms of institutional interaction and the external environment. This research, qualitative, quantitative and descriptive, it is proposed to evaluate the results achieved by POLEDUC as a mechanism for continuing education, as well as the changes produced in the graduates and strategic management of the UFC. In the results, there are indications, that the consistent POLEDUC is a good mechanism for continuing education, so the Federal University of Ceará is a learning institution and contributed positively in life of graduates, given that these have built new knowledge of strategic management innovative. But despite the significant change in the professional activities of graduates, there are no indications of changes introduced in university management, in view of the low level of use of the knowledge generated in the dissertations, for the improvement of professional practices and management in order that the creation of the course was anchored on a policy of ongoing training of servers UFC and similar institutions and partners.