Date: March 28 and 29, 2016.
Location: Neidson Rodrigues Auditorium, UFMG School of Education

Measuring the institutional, academic, and social effectiveness of Brazilian universities is one way to ensure improved quality in teaching, research, and outreach at higher education institutions. UFMG is no exception. For several years, the institution has been undergoing evaluation processes that seek to systematize its obstacles and strengths, listing areas for improvement and indicating directions.

Better understanding how these processes develop was one of the objectives of the third Colloquium on Higher Education, held on March 28 and 29, 2016, at the UFMG School of Education. The event brought together higher education researchers, faculty, and administrators for roundtable discussions addressing the expansion, regulation, and evaluation of higher education.

Broader experiences were heard, which addressed evaluation and flexibility in Higher Education after the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education (LDBEN 9394/96), as well as more specific experiences, such as the evaluation procedures that comprise the National System of Higher Education Evaluation – SINAES. Instituted by Law 10,861/2004, the System is a prerequisite for opening accreditation and re-accreditation processes for institutions and authorization and renewal of courses and qualifications, in addition to subsidizing the formulation of guidelines for public policies in Higher Education. There was also space for debate on evaluation processes aimed at postgraduate studies, with panels that addressed the Postgraduate Evaluation System, administered by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), a foundation linked to the Ministry of Education (MEC).

The event was organized in partnership with the Pro-Rectorates of Undergraduate Studies (Prograd) and Postgraduate Studies (PRPG), the Institutional Evaluation Directorate and the Distance Education Support Center (Caed).