Teacher deaths ‘at work’: FENPROF calls for investigation
Citing a study that claims 70% of the nation’s teachers are suffering elevated levels of ‘burnout’, FENPROF union boss Mário Nogueira has called for an investigation into three deaths of
Government “thinking of resigning” over teachers’ multi-million euro demands
A PS Socialist source has admitted that the government is pondering resigning over the impossible demands placed on it by teachers. It would take €630 million to ‘give back’ all
Teachers’ job insecurity affects 53,000
A shocking report by teachers union FENPROF highlights the reality of too many thousands consigned to a life of precarity and humiliation. As Fenprof explains, 53,000 teachers live in states
Only two first-time teachers placed in national schools for new academic year
Putting the crisis in the teaching profession into sharp focus, national tabloid Correio da Manhã has revealed that this year only two first-time teachers have gained places – when nationally
Education minister promises to investigate “sick note fraud”
It’s the latest purge targeting the nation’s teachers and involves allegations that many are presenting “fraudulent sick notes”. Just in the district of Bragança alone there are 360 teachers “off
Teachers ‘caught short’ during aptitude tests have to seek jury permission before going to toilet
In another ludicrous case of Portuguese bureaucracy gone mad, it now appears that any teacher needing to use the lavatory while sitting government-enforced aptitude tests later this month must seek
Court vetoes government’s “sneak-question” aptitude tests for teachers
It has been described as a “massive defeat” for an education ministry that has sought to relegate hundreds of teachers to the dole queues. A Coimbra court has ruled that
Outrage as government sets teachers another “idiotic aptitude test”
One in three Portuguese teachers who sat December’s government-set aptitude test failed. This translates into hundreds more teachers next year facing dole queues, as anyone who failed is now unable
Court forces education minister to reinstate teachers
News today that 13 teachers have successfully taken the education ministry to court and won back their jobs has opened the floodgates to hundreds more who feel they have been
Extra classes guaranteed for 20,000 schoolchildren still missing teachers
As calls for the resignation of Education Minister Nuno Crato seem certain to get a result, a government source has announced that all children still missing classes are guaranteed extra