Gestão do recurso da assistência estudantil destinado à alimentação em uma instituição de ensino superior

Abstract

The last decades registered an intense expansion process of the Brazilian Higher Education and consequently, a profile change of the students starting at ‘IFES’. The creation of public policies, especially to student aid, became necessary to amplify the conditions of staying and conclusion courses of these students. Since 2008, the Higher Education Institutions receive resources from PNAES to develop actions of student aid in several strategic areas. This technical report has as main goal develop an organizational diagnosis of the student aid management in meals allowance, at UFTM. As secondary goals, understand and describe how the resources from PNAES to meals allowance are managed in UFTM, and identify the management challenges, to propose an intervention that contributes to guarantee the effective application of the resources in meals allowance. This is a case study, with bibliographic research, documental and semi-structured interviews. Composed by a quantitative and qualitative study and an applied research. Was made an organizational diagnosis that shows concerns with the quality of the student’s meals and the uncertain about the effective use of the resources to quality nutrition, besides the low use of the university restaurant. Based in this result, was suggested one propose of intervention, related to the way of paying and the reference value of the student aid, aiming optimize the resource management and increase the quantity of beneficiated students by the meals allowance.