Attractiveness of undergraduate courses and the institutional policy of course changing: trampoline effect?
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Despite public policy actions aiming to increase the rate of access to higher education, there are some idle vacancies in both private and public sectors. In relation to the public sector, public universities develop actions through their own institutional policies aiming to fill idle vacancies related, among other reasons, to the low demand or dropout in the respective undergraduate course. The present quantitative study was carried out at the University of Brasília and had the purpose of analyzing the influence of the attractiveness of undergraduate courses, as well as the existence of the so-called "trampoline effect", in idle vacancies destined to internal transfers of undergraduate courses. The analysis of the 1,050 distinct cases that occurred from 2012 to 2016 was done through statistical techniques. The results showed statistical significance for the trampoline effect: students abandoned less attractive undergraduate courses towards more attractive courses. In addition, it was noted the migration of students from more recently created courses, especially through Reuni's policy, towards other older undergraduate courses at the institution. On the other hand, the attractiveness of the course did not show significant statistical association with the knowledge area of the courses (arts, biological, exact and human sciences). In short, the results showed that the institutional policy of internal transfer adopted by UnB has contributed to the increase of idle places in the courses of medium and low attractiveness.
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