It is a study whose subject is the financing and expansion of the private/mercantile education sector in Brazil analysis, utilizing public fund’s resources in an environment of the financialization process of private higher education. The study had the main goal of analyzing the private higher education’s funding policy, through governmental incentive mechanisms for private entities, such as granting tax relinquish, in the scope of Prouni, and student’s loan agreements in order to identify the implications of government incentives in the expansion process and financialization of higher education, constituting educational's oligopoles. It is deemed that the research into the financing of private/mercantile sector, using public fund’s resources, demands an understanding about the whole social context, with its structural and economic conditioning fators, in other words, inserted in the capitalist way of production. Thus, analyzes the financing of the growth of higher private/mercantile education, considering its essence and specificities in the context of structural crisis of capital and financial capital globalization process, with analysis of the guidance of international organizations and probate the use of public funds through the educational regulation. The thesis that leads the research is that the policy of granting benefits to private entities of higher education with the use of public fund’s resources, as the mechanisms of tax breaks, through Prouni, and funding student (Fies), corresponds to a kind of link between the State and the financial capital in the scope of education sector, which aims to answer the interests of capital, contributing to the expansion of private institutions and promoting financial accumulation of domestic and international investors (shareholders) as a result of the higher education financialization process. Based on theoretical and methodological supports of the historical and dialectical materialism, was analyzed public financing in the expansion of private higher education in educational groups Estácio Participações S.A., GAEC Educação S.A. (Ânima) and Ser Educacional S.A., extracted from financial statements and financial data, provided by those groups, statements of tax expenditures of the Secretaria da Receita Federal do Brasil (SRFB) [Brazil’s Federal Revenue] and Fies management reports, with emphasis on the period 2007 to 2015.Data shows that the public fund’s resources intended to the private-mercantile sector contribute to increasing the gainfulness of educational groups, increasing students basis in campus undergraduate, with a reduction in the tax burden due to tax relinquish of Prouni and credit warranty from the federal government, in the student loan agreements.Analyzed data shows that the Fies has significant relevance to the net revenue of the groups surveyed, responding for around 40% of monthly payments for undergraduate courses.The Fies resources are also used to offset taxes payable by private institutions to the federal government, in particular the social security contributions. Moreover, with the Fies, there is the issue of government bonds in favor of private educational institutions that reinforce the financialization process of educational groups, with the offering of these securities and the repurchases made by the federal government. It was observed that the changes in Fies, promoted at the end of 2014, did not affect the amount of financial resources intended for Estácio, Ânima and Ser Educacional groups nor a reduction in the number of Fies contracts signed by students of these educational groups.
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