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Two professors were injured.
Two professors were injured.
The laboratory area of the University of Beira Interior (UBI) Polo I, in Covilhã, was evacuated on Tuesday morning, March 17, following a gas leak from an old refrigerator, reports SIC Notícias. Two professors sustained minor injuries when opening the refrigerator due to the inhalation of gas released by reagents inside the appliance, but they did not require medical assistance. A small area near the Department of Textile Science and Technology and the main bar area were evacuated. The street in the Polo I zone was closed to traffic and pedestrians for about an hour, but has since been reopened.
Cases of alleged racism and misogyny by students from the University and Polytechnic of Coimbra are under investigation. The institutions state that they have taken measures and have notified the judicial authorities.
The leak originated from an old refrigerator in a laboratory zone, within a small area of the Department of Textile Science and Technology at the Faculty of Engineering campus. The street at the campus has since reopened.
The collection of Portuguese musician José Mário Branco, containing thousands of documents including writings, phonograms, and images, will now be available on a new digital online platform, to be presented this week at the Nova University of Lisbon.
Xenophobic and misogynistic images and audio attributed to students from the Faculty of Law and the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra circulated online. The Rector guarantees that cases outside the University of Coimbra will be referred to the Public Prosecutor's Office.
The rector assured that an investigation is underway and that he repudiates everything that goes against the institution's values.
The Universidade Nova de Lisboa will not appeal the Administrative Court's ruling and will therefore repeat the elections for the position of rector. Researcher Paulo Pereira had been elected in September with 52% of the general council's votes. The university was notified of the Administrative Court's decision.
The Lisbon administrative court ordered the process to be repeated following a complaint from a professor whose candidacy was not admitted.
The institution decided not to appeal the ruling of the Lisbon Administrative Court, which deemed the rejection of a professor's candidacy illegal.
The university states it will initiate the “necessary procedures for holding new elections”. A new rector had been elected last year.
University heads of department in Coimbra – arguably Portugal’s most prestigious centre of academic excellence – are investigating a series of WhatsApp messages (with images) that have been circulating, and The post Coimbra students face expulsion following ‘racist and misogynistic’ WhatsApp messages appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The University of Coimbra's Student Ombudsman has already begun proceedings to investigate the facts. The message was circulated in a higher education WhatsApp group in the city with over 800 members.
Woman sentenced to seven years and nine months in prison for stalking a university student. She created a dating app profile, sent messages, and shared sexually explicit photo montages.
The University of Coimbra has initiated “proceedings to establish the facts and those involved”; the incident could lead to the expulsion of the students.
The University of Coimbra has initiated “proceedings to establish the facts and those involved”; the incident could lead to the expulsion of the students.
The Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH) at NOVA University Lisbon condemned today the promotion of discriminatory content at the Chega stand at Futurália and requested intervention from the organisers.
The decision by the Lisbon Administrative Circle Court was published this month and determines the repetition of “all acts of the electoral procedure” held last year.
The decision by the Lisbon Administrative Circle Court was published this month.
Elections for the general council of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa remain unscheduled. The expectation was that the process would have begun at the end of last year, but 2026 is already nearly three months in and, so far, no steps have been taken in that direction. The current president guarantees that she will call for the elections “shortly,” while...
One of the candidates was excluded from the university's rectoral race and contested the decision. Now, the court has ruled that the election must be repeated and the candidate admitted.
The School of Arts of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP), in Porto, is restoring part of the archive of the parish of São Lourenço, in Macau, reported the Catholic newspaper O Clarim today.
UNL statutes required rector candidates to be full professors, but the requirement 'exceeds the scope' of the law, says the Lisbon Administrative Court. The election will be repeated and UNL will have to pay €30,000.