Interinstitutional cooperation policies and their impacts on development and consolidation of graduate programs

Abstract

This article historically recovers scenarios in which policies of inter-institutional cooperation were created, covering national, regional and international contexts that would induce developments in institutional and individual levels as well as impact decisively on institutional development per se as in the development of institutional research. It can be said that policies that would lead to a process of homogenization of higher education may have produced at least fi ve different types of changes: changes in organizational structures and institutional research, institutional changes in policy research, changes in management research, changes in institutional and individual culture of intellectual production. From the point of view of a strict analysis of the policy that encouraged inter-agency cooperation the review policies combined with cooperation policies of cooperation induced internationalization by rewarding the groups of researchers, research groups, laboratories or research centers to sign covenants and produce together with their international counterparts adding value to the already known policy of institutional solidarity. The comparative exercises, both of interinstitutional cooperation policy as well as the review policy, allow discussion that much of the observed developments and institutional advances have generated different forms of institutionalization of changes and increased the epistemological analyzes of comparative knowledge that these policies have raised in the last four decades.

Key words: analysis of policies, interinstitutional cooperation, evaluation, internationalization, higher education.