Panel SA: Colleges go to MEC to ask for accreditation to offer distance learning courses

After the experience of distance learning in the pandemic, the higher education market seeks accreditation at the MEC to remain in the model and expand it.

Insper is one of those that has just received approval from the ministry to offer higher education courses in the distance mode.

According to Irineu Gianesi, director of academic affairs at the institution, the school will maintain lato sensu graduate courses that did not exist in the remote format before the pandemic.

The catalog starts with the Executive MBA program, the advanced program in data science, data journalism and graduate finance. Graduation is not in the plans for this expansion of the remote.

“At the beginning of the pandemic, many of the executive education courses we had were canceled because we didn’t have an offer for remote learning. During the pandemic, we developed around 80 programs to maintain our executive education operation. introduction of this type of technology”, says Gianesi.

This week, other institutions such as Escola Paulista de Direito and Faculdade Paulista de Ciências da Saúde received the MEC’s ​​approval for online.

The movement gains traction outside São Paulo, with the ministry’s release to institutions such as Fabemp, in Uberlândia (MG), Faculdade Alves Lima, in the Federal District and the ITH College in Goiânia.

Joana Cunha with Andressa Motter