Evasão escolar na educação superior: estudo de caso na graduação em secretariado executivo

Abstract

The main objective of this article was to quantitatively investigate the dropout rate of undergraduate students in the Executive Secretariat on the campus of the Federal Institute of Piauí - central IFPI, also analyzing possible factors that triggered such an event. The concern with the theme, in the current context of public educational policies in Brazil, is relevant, given the number of works that are presented in HEIs and that reflect the reality that affects educational institutions, whether public or private. It is also notable to emphasize the impact of this phenomenon, not only in the institution in question, but above all the consequences in the student's life, which carries the harmful effects of not completing the course and not receiving the much dreamed of higher education certificate. The research developed was bibliographical in nature and analyzed the different concepts related to the term dropout and also related to data collected on dropout rates in the secretarial course, in order to guide the work theme and show the different aspects related to this very university phenomenon. recurrent. The results show that the reasons are many and mostly social, there are still actions to be taken for the problem to be effectively resolved.