Tutorial Education Program (PET): quality and excellence in human and profesional formation

Abstract

The Tutorial Education Program (PET) aims to raise the quality of undergraduate education through extracurricular activities that integrate teaching, research and extension in Higher Education. This experience report is based on a literature review, analysis of legal documents and evaluations of the PET's contributions to academic formation based on the categories of quality and excellence in Higher Education, developed at the State University of Maringá. The results show that the program plays a crucial role in the integral development of undergraduates, promoting scientific standards and training new cadres of scientists and professionals in the country, in the most diverse areas of study, in which interpersonal skills are also prioritized. PET enriches students' academic and professional formation, fomenting integration between academic dimensions through tutorial learning of a collective and interdisciplinary nature, contributing to students' permanence at university and improving their professional and teaching formation by raising their technical, scientific, technological and academic qualifications.