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Bruno Cochat, advisor to the school's board, states that academic activities will return to the building on Rua dos Caetanos at the beginning of the next school year in September, eight years later.
Half a year after the allegations against António Capelo, the inspectorate has closed its investigation into the arts school founded by the actor in Porto. On 12 February, the school elected three new directors.
The demonstration was organised by private arts schools, which brought students and teachers from across the country to the capital for the “future of specialised arts education”.
Hundreds of students and teachers from specialised arts education programmes are protesting today in front of the Ministry of Education in Lisbon to advocate for an increase in public funding, which has not been updated since 2009.
Funding levels for Specialised Artistic Education (EAE) have remained unchanged since 2009, while those for other types of education, in public and private schools, have been updated in line with inflation. Opinion by Rui Fernandes.
The Sebastião e Melo Music Academy, in the municipality of Pombal (Leiria), today criticised the lack of funding for new schools of specialised artistic education, calling for the rectification of what it describes as discriminatory.
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More than 11,000 people have signed a petition calling for increased funding for specialised arts education schools, warning that the educational paths of tens of thousands of students across Portugal The post Over 11,000 sign petition to protect arts education for 32,000 students appeared first on Portugal Resident.
A petition with nearly 11,000 signatures emphasises that the amounts transferred per pupil have been “frozen” since 2015, and demands “fair” sums updated annually in line with inflation.
