Non-scholarship students studying away from home to receive financial help with accommodation
In a Council of Ministers today that focused on measures to improve the lives of young people in Portugal, the government has approved a measure that allows university students studying
Porto students wheeling travel bags protest at prospect of emigration
Around 200 university students demonstrated in Porto today wheeling travel bags against the prospect of emigration/ lack of accommodation and other problems faced by ‘Generation 30’ – so called because
Almost 70% of Coimbra university students intend to emigrate – survey
Nearly 70% of students at the University of Coimbra intend to emigrate in the future, with 40% thinking of leaving Portugal in the next five years and around 30% in
Almost one in 10 pupils in Portugal’s schools of foreign nationality
Numbers of foreigners living in Portugal has almost doubled in decade The number of foreign school children attending Portuguese schools has increased in recent years, with the academic year 2021/2022
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
Sovereign Art Foundation – Global Students Prize
Among the talented young artists vying for the title of ‘Global’ winner are the winners from The Portugal Students Prize 2023 The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF) has announced the shortlist
High accommodation prices keeping uni students away from Algarve
Average price per room has increased by 40% in Faro in two years The high cost of accommodation in Faro has been named the “main barrier” keeping students from studying
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
Portugal has never had so many students enrolled in higher education
“Historic maximum of foreign students” among those in system Portugal has never had so many students enrolled in higher education. In line with the reality that the basic system is
Portugal spends ‘less on school pupils than OECD average’
… and majority of secondary school teachers earn below OECD average Further headlines today impress the degree to which focus on education in Portugal has fallen behind other comparable countries.