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Arts education calls for more funding and annual price updates
A petition with nearly 11,000 signatures stresses that the amounts transferred per pupil have been “frozen” since 2015 and demands fair amounts updated annually in line with inflation.
Todos Contam competition recognises the best financial education projects in schools
Applications for the 14th edition of the Todos Contam competition run from 6 January to 6 February 2026, recognising the best financial education projects implemented in Portuguese schools during the 2025/2026 school year. The initiative is promoted by the National Council of Financial Supervisors – composed of the Bank of Portugal, the Authority of ...
Motto of the new Gulbenkian Institute for Advanced Studies is total freedom to think
More than 450 academics from around the world applied to a new initiative by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: to have time to give free rein to their thinking. In April the ten selected will be announced.
The FCT, the higher education crisis and the housing problem
The Grant-holder Statute prevents grant-holders from being paid to teach at their host institution. Changing a single clause would allow the institution to top up the grant. Opinion piece by Federico Herrera
"Groenlândia" or "Gronelândia": a legitimate question?
Do you know the different ways of voting around the world? Marco Neves also explores the concept of language isolates, the difference between “Irão” and “Irã”, and the uncertainty over the word “Gronelândia”.
Lost minds
The widespread use of AI is reportedly turning students into 'digital cretins' and corrupting education.
On the decline
It will be very difficult for social harmony to be maintained at our universities and research institutes.
National Reading Plan (XLII)
One of the best poems about what true life might be is the sonnet by António Franco Alexandre (born 1944) that begins with the declaration 'I saw Rome burning.'
'Students turned into digital cretins.' Manifesto calls for a ban on AI in universities
A manifesto signed by dozens of professors. They want to put an end to the deluge of 'artificial assignments systematically brought down to mediocrity by a chatbot'.
Financial literacy: a pillar of economic, family and social well-being
Financial literacy is based on a very simple premise: the higher an individual's level of financial education, the more informed and effective their decisions tend to be throughout life. This relationship between knowledge and the quality of choices ceased long ago to be merely intuitive and is now widely recognised by organisations ...
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