Selection notice establishes illegal territorial restriction for candidates for the position

The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) has recommended that the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) suspend the selection process for distance tutors, opened by notice no. 029 of the institution’s Distance Education Secretariat. According to the MPF, the notice establishes a territorial restriction for candidates for the position that has no legal basis.

In order to select tutors for the Extension Course, Training for Teachers and Management for Education of Ethnic-Racial and Quilombola Relations, UFSC established in the notice a series of requirements for applications for the selection. Among them, it is required that the candidate has proven residence in Santa Catarina.

According to the Federal Prosecutor Carlos Augusto de Amorim Dutra, author of the recommendation, this territorial restriction is not supported by law. Furthermore, the ordinance of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) that regulates criteria for the selection of scholarship holders and the payment of scholarships within the scope of the Open University of Brazil (UAB) system does not establish territorial restrictions for the selection processes.

“According to the selection process announcement itself, the nature of the tutoring activity is in the distance modality, which makes the requirement of residence in Santa Catarina an affront to the principle of reasonableness in public administration”, argued the prosecutor. The MPF also recommended that UFSC reopen the registration stage without the territorial restriction and with the consequent rescheduling of the selection events calendar.

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