A assistência estudantil no IFBA campus Ubaitaba: análise documental do Programa de Assistência e Apoio ao Estudante (PAAE) no Curso Técnico em Informática Subsequente (2021-2026).

Abstract

This final paper, presented as a formative report within a postgraduate specialization program in Management in Professional and Technological Education, focuses on the Student Assistance and Support Program (PAAE) at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Bahia (IFBA), Ubaitaba Campus, with attention to the support provided to students of the post-secondary Technical Course in Informatics. The study aimed to understand how this support was configured based on the public notices and results published between 2021 and 2026. Adopting a qualitative approach and a documentary nature, the research built its corpus from the PAAE public notices and results available through institutional channels, complemented by normative documents of the IFBA Student Assistance Policy and by the Course Pedagogical Project. The analysis organized the information according to types of benefit, amounts, selection criteria, permanence requirements, number of assisted students, and recurrence of beneficiaries. The results showed that the configuration of the support did not follow a linear pattern, shifting from the exceptional character of 2021, linked to remote teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic, to regular benefits for housing, food, and transportation in the following years. The study also identified the recurrence of 35 students in the results, 24 of whom appeared in the selection results in three or more different years. This finding is discussed based on the understanding that permanence and dropout are multicausal processes and that the normative purpose of a policy does not prove its implementation. It is concluded that the documents allow the reconstruction of the support configuration, but not the assessment of its effects on students’ trajectories, and that the organization and preservation of the institutional memory of student assistance constitute, in themselves, a management issue.