In this letter, I would like to make some consideration about the article "Changes in USP" published on 09.22.2010, in the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo. The article was about a reformulate pretending b USP in its curriculum.
USP has seen its budget increase about 40%, because the increase of state money in the over past five years. It was know that this increase, however, was not reflected in a development of scientific output in the university. Regarding the quality of the courses existing in this university, it is impossible to do a measurement because the USP refuses to participate in the Enade, an examination of the Ministry of Education that could compare it to other Brazilian institutions.
It was recently published a ranking electing the best 500 universities around the world, which USP is 232rd. Incontestably, this is an important mark for Brazilian teaching, but also this may be an indication of a lag in some aspects of the college, such as incentives on research, one of the criterion to make the ranking.
As a public university, USP cannot abdicate the task of cultivating and spreading a kind of knowledge that cannot find space on the banks of private colleges. For this reason, in my view, it would be more interesting another kind of changes.
Besides the review of careers, the rector of the institution, João Grandino Rodas, announced its intention to curb the increasing number of graduate vacancies, which rose 50% in the last eight years. Will it be a good change?
Interestingly, the rector is conscious that these changes may not be favorable to the University and impair the quality of education. Now it remains await the results of this analysis, see what the measures are taken by the university and hope that it propels towards an improvement.
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