Analyzes on Student Permanence in the Federal Institutes of Education

ABSTRACT This article discusses the student permanence in technical courses that are subsequent to high school at the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina – IFSC – initials in Portuguese from Brazil) and presents the results of a study carried out with teachers and students of these courses. The objective was to understand the conditions related to student permanence based on the interlocution between their living conditions and institutional conditions. Living conditions are understood as a product of student participation in the process of social production and reproduction. Institutional conditions comprise institutional programs and actions developed by the courses. The results indicate compatibility and incompatibility among the mentioned conditions and indicate the priority of institutional responsibility in the production of strategies to assure that students remain on track to complete the courses.