Students lose university funding due to insertion of word “or” into regulations
The government has defended a change in regulations governing the awarding of State funds to university students living away from home. Insertion of the word “or” ensures that students who
School test results “disastrous”, lament school directors
Results “cannot be blamed on pandemic, or instability in schools” Just as the prime minister hails advances in the levels of education in Portugal’s schools, the results of this year’s
Government wants life support training as part of school curriculum
Portugal’s interior minister, José Luís Carneiro, has said he hopes the pilot scheme implemented in Mangualde to train school children in basic life support will be extended to the whole
Opposition parties lambast education minister’s u-turn over teachers’ frozen pay
Opposition parties have sprung to the attack of education minister João Costa following his ‘surprise’ u-turn on the issue of returning teachers’ ‘stolen’ pay, and in the context of the
Portuguese pupils “cannot understand long texts/ abstract concepts or distinguish fact from opinion” as they used to
Potentially a combination of the months in which education was affected first by the pandemic, and then by teachers’ strikes, plus the propensity these days for young people to use
“Wage prize” approved for graduates who stay working in Portugal
Graduates to receive “one year’s tuition fees for each year of declared work” Yesterday’s Council of Ministers – one of the last in Portugal’s outgoing Socialist government – approved the
Schools should be more welcoming for gypsy children – study
School should be a more welcoming place for young gypsy children, advocates a study to be presented in Lisbon tomorrow, recommending “encouraging family participation, having intercultural mediators in school, health
Schools face national strike, between November 13-29
André Pestana, leader of S.T.O.P. announces two-and-a-half week strike Teachers and non-teaching staff of the country’s State schools will be on strike between November 13 and 29. The dates were
Parents lose custody of child following repeated school absences
Appeal court judges in Évora have ruled that a 13-year-old boy who can neither read nor write should be removed from his parents’ (“immediately and energetically”) to spend “at least
More than 5,000 teachers take sick leave in first three weeks of term
More than 5,000 teachers have taken sick leave since classes began for the new academic year three weeks ago, according to figures released today by the Ministry of Education. On