Latest news and stories about higher education in technology in Portugal for expats and residents.
The integration of AI chatbots in classrooms presents significant uncertainties and a lack of national data, yet the trend appears unstoppable, prompting a critical look at the future of education.
Rogério Casanova argues that not all functional academic writing—such as recommendation letters or election manifestos—needs to be crafted by highly skilled humans. He advocates for more explicit manifestos and institutional policies governing the use of AI in universities, allowing routine and low-value writing to be delegated to tools while preserving human oversight where it matters. The column frames such manifestos as pragmatic, ethical guides to protect quality, fairness and accountability in higher education’s adoption of AI.
Ivo Vieira, CEO of Lusospace — Portugal’s first homegrown space company — explains on the podcast 'O Futuro do Futuro' how the country’s Aerospace Engineering courses continue to post record-breaking averages and how that strong educational pipeline is producing talent the national space sector can recruit across roles, not only engineers. He stresses that the quality of graduates makes recruitment easier for emerging Portuguese space firms, signalling a maturing ecosystem linking higher education and industry needs.
NOVA IMS (NOVA School of Information Management) is the information management and data science faculty of NOVA University Lisbon. It specialises in data science, information management and business analytics through taught programmes, applied research and industry partnerships. The school emphasises quantitative methods, practical analytics skills and interdisciplinary approaches to prepare graduates for roles in data-driven organisations and to support research and consulting activity across public and private sectors.
In an interview, the co-founder of Forward College discusses why traditional higher education is failing to keep pace with a rapidly changing world, the role of AI in learning, and how his institution uses a hybrid model of academic excellence, social skills, and real-world projects to prepare students for an uncertain future.
The Secretary of State for Higher Education argued this Thursday that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not replace teachers, but rather reinforce their role as “pedagogical mentors.” In a debate on the future of universities at the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), Cláudia Sarrico warned that the ongoing technological transformation “is a ...
Reflecting on the challenges facing the University of Porto under its new rectoral team, this piece argues that the institution must reinvent itself to remain relevant. It calls for a new pedagogical model and a stronger connection with society and the economy. By focusing on technology, talent, and tolerance, the University should act as a catalyst for change, fostering global citizens and driving competitiveness in an increasingly complex world.
The Pedro Nunes Institute has been selected to lead the MIT Portugal partnership programme through to the year 2030.
New educational initiatives in Portugal are using virtual reality technology to teach financial literacy and budgeting skills.
The university of the future will require more theory, not less. AI has not killed theory. It has killed the illusion that transmission is enough.
The Instituto Pedro Nunes has been appointed to lead the executive direction of the MIT Portugal partnership.
At the entrance to Higher Education there is, at least metaphorically, an old mirror. For decades, it reflected professors, students, and researchers—not always aligned, but still recognisable as part of the same ecosystem. Over time, that mirror accumulated cracks: the growing centrality of rankings and metrics, the massification of education without proportional investment, and...
Cooperation between institutions in Rio Grande do Sul and Leiria, in Central Portugal, also targets promotion in the field of innovation and the creation of economic and scientific opportunities.
The adoption of generative AI in higher education has advanced faster than the institutional capacity to define usage policies, concludes the National Council for Pedagogical Innovation.
The President of the General Board of the Coimbra Academic Association says it is necessary to monitor the use of new tools and explains the main points of the Manifesto for AI Regulation.
Campus.ly cross-references exams, subject areas, interests, locations, and estimated costs to suggest a list of universities and polytechnics compatible with what the app user is looking for.
The final version of the app is expected to be released in June, just before the national university admissions process.
The application cross-references exams, fields of study, interests, locations, and estimated costs.
More than 1,500 11th and 12th-grade students from various schools across the country are expected to attend another edition of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) career week, taking place from March 24th to 26th. Students will have the opportunity to learn about the educational offerings and career prospects firsthand.
These indicators reflect the structural transformation of the University of Coimbra as an agent of development, establishing it as a driver of the knowledge economy and applied innovation.
The fair is visited every year by thousands of young people who intend to enter higher education.
Exploring methods, challenges and implications of using artificial intelligence to teach and assess students in higher education.
Students will continue to use AI; they will just do so covertly, without any framework, without literacy and without ethics. Opinion by Nelson Zagalo
The real question is not about banning or not banning, or about whether to use AI. The paradox is an old one: knowledge is not transmitted, it is constructed. That construction takes place from the inside out. Column by Filipa M. Ribeiro
CRUP has never issued guidelines, but the use of AI has been widely discussed and integrated by institutions, says Paulo Ferreira.
The dean of the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), Pedro Oliveira, considers it 'impossible' to ban the advance of artificial intelligence (AI) in schools, after a group of higher education professors signed a manifesto to that effect, arguing that the use of generative AI is creating 'digital cretins'. 'It was reported that a ...'
Dozens of professors from higher education institutions across the country have signed a manifesto against the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI), warning of the transformation of students into “digital The post Digital idiots: university professors call for ban on use of AI in Higher Education appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The text, signed by 28 professors, aims 'to promote the humanisation of higher education and to ban the use of artificial intelligence in learning processes'.
The OECD is also concerned about the risks of using AI in education.
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'.
