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Negotiations on the revision of the Teaching Career Statute resumed this Wednesday, with qualifications for teaching, recruitment, and admission on the agenda.
The government's proposal for revising the Teaching Career Statute (ECD) includes access through a “centralised national competition”, a one-year trial period, and an exceptional regime for teachers without legal qualifications. The document clarifies the concept of a teacher and emphasizes the need for legally required scientific and pedagogical training, while allowing for temporary exceptions. It also outlines a structured legislative review process to ensure coherence with existing laws governing the teaching profession.
Calls for an evaluation that recognises students' accomplishments across their school career.
Rethinking what it means to learn, assess and certify knowledge in a world with generative AI has become inevitable. Opinion piece by Elvira Fortunato.
Reducing the number of entrance exams for access to higher education is not agreed among student representatives: some associations support the change while others consider the current model fairer and more transparent.
The Minister of Education announced a date for the integration of the 1st and 2nd cycles of basic education, but it remains unclear how he plans to do it.
The OECD will monitor the reform of the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation for two years, the minister announced this Tuesday, explaining that the aim is to ensure independent oversight of the process based on “best international practices”. “We will have independent oversight of the reform in the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation (MECI), with ...”
Minister of Education Fernando Alexandre told Parliament that the OECD will oversee the reform, under which the 18 entities currently operating in services for the non‑higher education system and for higher education, science and innovation will be reduced to just seven.
Mr Minister of Education, what is the priority of your education policy? I will give you three options: system stability, improving learning outcomes, or profoundly reforming the Ministry's governance? It is to profoundly reform the Ministry's governance. That is what we are doing. We are implementing the largest reform the Ministry has seen in many decades...
Fernando Alexandre admitted he never understood the 2023 decision by the Socialist Party (PS) government to make at least two entrance exams mandatory.
The current Student Statute requires immediate updates to better define and speed up the processes for handling disciplinary issues in schools, in light of recent incidents of violence.
