Selection process at the Federal Institute of Brasília

analysis of the draw as an inclusive policy

Abstract

This article is the result of master's research conducted in 2023 at the Master's Program in Professional and Technological Education (ProfEPT), at Instituto Federal de Brasília, Campus Brasília. The objective is to analyze the public draw as an inclusive policy at the IFB Campus Gama in the Proeja integrated technical course, investigating how this strategy has been inserted over time and comparing it to other selection models in federal institutes. A mixed approach of qualitative and quantitative data was followed. Documentary and bibliographical research was based on the inclusion and access policy laws of the federal network of professional and technological education in the context of selection processes and on the institutional documents of the Instituto Federal de Brasília. The locus of the research was the IFB Campus Gama, and data was collected from the actors of the selection process committee through a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The results indicate that IFB currently guarantees 60% of vacancies for legal affirmative action policies, a percentage that is above the mandatory level. It was found that in the last five years (2019 to 2023), there was a drop in the number of enrollments and the existence of unfilled vacancies after regular calls, referring to the Proeja integrated technical course on the Gama campus, pointing to the need for the institution to qualify the procedures publicizing the specificities of the admission process. Selection processes still follow a meritocratic trend in the application of tests; however, the policy of access and entry to IFB technical courses via lottery provides for affirmative actions and is seen as a fair and democratic way.