A política de assistência estudantil do Instituto Federal Farroupilha – Campus Júlio de Castilhos: a contribuição dos auxílios financeiros na permanência dos estudantes

Abstract

This work, based on the dialectical-critical method, is the result of a research that sought to verify if the financial aid, in the form of income transfer, offered by the Federal Institute Farroupilha - Júlio de Castilhos Campus, through the National Program of (PNAES), contributed to the permanence and success of students, minimizing evasion situations. The objectives were also to identify the socioeconomic profile of the students who requested financial aid from student assistance, and to verify the percentage of permanence and avoidance among the students in question, in order to foment the debate on student assistance policy from the their social reality. The choice of the subject comes from the process of living in the compulsory internship in Social Service, carried out in the Coordination of Student Assistance (CSA) of the said Campus. And, the sample was based on retrospective data from the year 2016 of the list of students who applied for financial aid from student assistance and their respective socioeconomic registers filled in the application process. The result of the study allows to know the socioeconomic reality of this segment, drawing a profile of the students who request this type of aid, besides presenting the percentage of permanence and avoidance reaffirming the contribution of the student assistance policy in the federal educational institutions, based on social rights and citizenship, in order to minimize the consequences resulting from economic and social inequalities during the permanence of students in these institutions.