Brazilian society questions the increase in the number of higher education institutions in the same way that the Order of Lawyers of Brazil discuss the growing number of law schools.
There is no denying that the arguments deserve considersation of those who insist that there should be more restrictions on the authorization for the creation of new degree courses, given the validity of the claim that the courses should be few and good. On the other hand, it is unquestionable that the access to education and the opportunity for professional and intellectual growth must be made available as much as possible to all citizens. In this sense, the increased supply of higher education should be seen as a social need for democratization of access to knowledge, the only means capable of providing the real meaning of “citizenship”.
Moreover, it’s a mistaken understanding that Brazil has an exaggerated number of places in higher education. According to the latest census promoted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics – IBGE, our country has a little more than 3 million people enrolled in university courses, which represents less than 1.7% of our population, presenting itself as one of the lowest rates in the world. For example, Argentina has 6% of its population inserted in higher education. To achieve this percentage, we would have to create 7.5 million new jobs, which would represent an increase of 150% compared to the current number.
The National Education Plan – PNE stipulates that 30% of young people between 18 and 24 have access to higher education in 2010. According to the IBGE, only 9% of young people in this age group were registered in 2001. It’s necessary to triple the access for students of this age group. In fact, Brazil needs the opportunities in the area of education to grow, as a way to broaden the possibilities of vocational training, allowing an improvement in the quality of products and services in the country.
Thus, the increased supply of higher education should be seen as an evolution in Brazilian society and not as a reduction of the countries’ intellectual level. The largest number of higher education institutions will enable the population to have more access to the labor market, thus improving the income distribution. Higher education is no longer a privilege available to higher economical classes since now it’s being well within the reach of all classes.
The expansion of higher education is beneficial to the country. However, the State cannot fail to fulfill its role as a regulator and in supervisory activities.
The role of the Ministry of Education is faultless, due to the fact that it has carried out the analysis, supervision and monitoring of higher education, with the impostion of several actions and evaluations systems aimed at the implementation of minimum standards of excellence.
It is clear that Brazil walks towards the adequacy of the binomial quantity-quality, demonstrating that a serious and effective action of the State promotes the opening of new courses that can be done without losing educational quality.
Furthermore, the analysis of the performance of higher education institutions that is shown in the various assessment tools created by the Ministry of Education (National Course Exam) clearly shows a better result of new institutions to the detriment of older ones, even when it comes to infrastructure (community centers, class halls and libraries).
Thus, preventing the creation of new courses under the argument of low quality of higher education would be nothing more than creating a market reserve for existing courses. This is possible due to the fact that the freedom of competition is capable of destroying the excessive profit and isstill practiced by many higher education institutions and trigger procedures that will result in efficiency and improving the quality of the service offered part of the proposal to open a new college and its law school. You may think that this is an effort to achieve entry into the area of Legal Education, being that is one of the fastest growing courses in the higher education market.
However, the Savonitti College is born with the baggage of its founders, related to the experience of its Managing Director and Partner-Director in the area of Legal Education. The experience, expertise, reliability and recognition that Prof. Henrique Savonitti Miranda gained in the legal field allows you to ensure that your law school has many possibilities, making it one of the best in São Paulo.
The professional excellence of the Director of the Savonitti Institue is well-known when dealing with the legal education. In fact, his work has been based not only on academic training, but also addressing the shortcomings of colleges in the preparation of students for the labour market, especially with the preparation for careers in the legal area, as well as in the recycling of professionals already engaged with the Judiciary (Court of the Federal District and Superior Court of Justice) and Legislative (Senate). With that, the legal area of São Paulo demands a Law School that integrates the experience with a first-rate legal education. This being, denying this right to Araraquara is not valid, due to the fact that the city that has stood out as an example of technological and scientific development, making it possible to achieve the ideals of a higher legal education.
Do know that our city, located in the central region of São Paulo, is considered the richest and has one of the greatest purchasing power in the country, in addition to the large consumers market, with a per capita income of 51.000 dollars. One of its main features is the high HDI (Human development index), and low rate of illiteracy (3.34%).
The Savonitti College fulfills the wishes of all legal practitioners: experience in legal education, awarence of the needs of operators that will vamp in various legal careers, in addition to a strong ideological relationship with the primacies of education, making it noteworthy to emphasive that the college’s founder chose to investigate the problems related to legal education; contrary to the natural tendency of many to always analyse technical issues.
For all these reasons, the Savonitti College will mark a new phase when it comes to methods, goals and standards of legal education, demanding that society and the Institutions of Civil society, such as the Order of Lawyers of Brazil, commune and reverence the quality of this Institute.