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The Minister of Education, Science and Innovation said this Tuesday that the reform of the education system, which is being carried out by the end of next year, will make it 'unrecognisable' with the application of artificial intelligence (AI). Fernando Alexandre defended the maintenance of a centralised model for its ability to achieve efficiency through...
It's paradoxical: never have so many demands been placed on young people in terms of critical thinking, and never has a subject that can foster it in a structured way (among others, of course) been taught so little. Opinion by Sara Dias-Trindade
Cristina Mota, of the Missão Escola Pública movement, says there is still insufficient data to “make an assessment” of the Ministry of Education's proposal to merge the first and second cycles, which would include changes to the curricula.
The government plans to revise the curricula and the organisational structure of the first and second cycles of basic education, with changes to be implemented by 2027.
The Minister is being questioned in Parliament. He says there were 4,222 valid candidates in this year's Extraordinary External Competition for Teachers and that the results will be announced on 26 January.
The Deputy Minister for State Reform, Gonçalo Matias, said on Tuesday that “257 trained and qualified teachers who had been in administrative roles were returned to schools” following the reform that eliminated 300 leadership posts. The minister, speaking in the Assembly of the Republic during a formal hearing of the Commission on State Reform, ...
