A educação no Brasil: o sistema de pós-graduação e as competências federativas

Abstract

This thesis introduces some present problems of postgraduate courses in Brazil, in view of federalism and the autonomy of the state-members, and also their respective and possible solutions. On the subject of education, the constitutional division of competences and duties indicates a vertical decentralization. In this prospect, some questions of federative arder arise, such as the grounds of competences of the Union, the States and the Municipal Districts. We analysed the National System of Postgraduate Courses in view of Brazilian federalism, on the basis of the Republic' s Constitution, and of some infra-constitution laws. In this perspective, we investigated the National System of Education, upon the matters of postgraduate courses and legislative competences of both the Federal Union and the states, conceming education. The research showed up the atypical (and even anomalous) situation of our National System of Education, referring to postgraduate courses themselves and to the competences of both the Federal Union and the states to legislate about this matter. We observed that so much federal authority considerably weakens and discredits the constitutional principIe which foresees the Federative Pact, based on cooperation and integration, whose purposes are reinforcing the autonomy of the federated entities and promoting the approximation between citizens and govemment