Programa Nacional de Assistência Estudantil (PNAES): uma análise sobre a Implementação no Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais – campus São João Evangelista.

Abstract

The National Program of Student Assistance (PNAES) aims to provide students of the federal institutions of education in conditions of socioeconomic vulnerability, conditions for permanence and completion of courses with satisfactory academic performance. This work analyzed the methodology and criteria for the implementation of the National Program of Student Assistance (PAE) of the Federal Institute of Minas Gerais (IFMG) in the São João Evangelista Campus, in relation to scholarships of socioeconomic and academic merit awarded to students of courses, from 2016 to 2018, under the watchful eye of the professionals responsible for their execution and the beneficiaries attended. The nature of this research is qualitative-quantitative. Three techniques of data collection were used: documentary analysis, semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. The interviews and the answers to the discursive question of the questionnaire went through a content analysis as recommended by Silva and Fossá (2015). The objective questions of the questionnaires were processed in Microsoft Excel software and the Google Form platform, then quantified and presented in the form of tables and graphs. The results showed that the implementation methodology adopted by the IFMG-SJE in its Student Assistance Program (PAE) presented faulty points that contributed to the slowness of the process and consequent delay in attendance to students in situations of vulnerability. The IFMG has concentrated efforts to improve the methodology of execution of the PAE and the main route found to achieve this objective has been through the computerization of these processes. The beneficiaries of the IFMG-SJE ECPs were satisfied with the implementation of this program on campus. Among the points to be optimized in order to improve the services provided to the beneficiaries, the following stand out: the participation of the students in the planning of the PAE, the delay in the selection of fellows, the follow-up of the scholarship holders and the participation of the students in the evaluation of the PAE.