POST-GRADUATION AS A HISTORICAL REFERENCE TO CAREER AND SOCIETY

Before the uncertainties surrounding Higher Education and research promotion agencies in Brazil, we are challenged to discuss this theme so relevant to the country's development. Thus, this study aims to discuss the post-graduation system in Brazil, from a historical perspective, inquiring its initial milestones, its development, its current context and its perspectives of continuity and expansion. The theme is also addressed as one of the supposedly structuring aspects of institutionalized teaching career management. Adopting the qualitative approach, we used literature referring to the themes proposed as sources of information, besides the documentary corpus composed of opinions, laws and also the national graduate plans. It is understood that, since its inception, graduate studies have made great strides and represent the most structured and continuous development in the complex System of Higher Education in Brazil, despite the challenges still faced in terms of financing, asymmetries and mismatches, highlighting in its historical horizon a strong threat of suppression of the incentives of the State.