O nível do ensino oferecido pela universidade brasileira, segundo seus graduados, está atendendo ás exigencias do mercado global?

Abstract

This work is intended to find an answer to the following question: How well trained are our graduates to face the present unemployment challenge? With the purpose to get a better insight into the problem under study, a survey of graduates who are presently attending special courses, which are intended to prepare professionals applying for a public job through public selection tests, was carried out. In terms of salary it was found out that most of them are unhappy in their present job (48.9%)This fact stimulates a demand for better job opportunities, and that is why they are attending such courses. Among those interviewed 70,5% have already sat for some sort of selection test without success; 66,2% pointed to the fact that the market demand is for highly qualified and skilled professionals. Therefore, 56,7% stressed that the University should emphasize "Theory and Practice" in their courses, according to the conditions imposed by a global market. On the other hand 92,6% said that the University is failing in preparing professionals who will be able to meet the needs of a global economy. Thus, the effects of a global economy on employment is clear to the graduates who live in the metropolitan area of Natal/RN-Brazil and took part in this research during the period of January/97 to February/97.

The results showed that the level of knowledge of the surveyed subjects is below that of the market needs. It was ascertain that 16,9% of the graduates surveyed are engineers, although 28 different professions have been identified within the group. The second greater percentage goes to accounting with a total of 16,5 %, followed by management.

To sum up, these results constitute an alert to the Brazilian University in order to redirect its teaching activities towards a better skilled and qualified professional to meet the present market demand (CNPq).