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University should be the place where one learns to question and think critically. But the first contact with academic life is a small theatre of humiliations and hierarchies.
The new paradigm announced in this way requires institutions capable of promoting the virtues of cooperation, the only effective guarantee that the excesses of competition itself will not be normalised. A chronicle by Urbano Sidoncha.
Between shared drives, past exams and recycled assessments, Portuguese higher education has normalised repetition, devalued merit and institutionalised 'desenrascanço' (the knack of improvising to get by). Column by Alexandre Pinto.
