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A total of 3,295 teachers retired this academic year, while over 2,000 opted to extend their careers through a government incentive program. Meanwhile, the government partially approved Meo's request for staff redundancies, authorizing 300 departures with unemployment benefits as part of a broader restructuring effort.
FENPROF plans to file a complaint with the Attorney General's Office, arguing that overtime pay for teachers is a legal obligation rather than an exceptional recognition, a stance supported by the FNE.
The president of the Camões Institute guarantees that she wants to focus on the “career and remuneration enhancement of teachers of Portuguese language abroad,” highlighting their role in education.
The Madeira Teachers' Union has called for a demonstration on Wednesday.
The decree, which came into force at the beginning of this month, allows schools to hire retired teachers as well as post-Bologna graduates.
More than 20,000 teachers have been placed, but Fenprof says that schools remain without a response to permanent teacher needs.
Fernando Alexandre signed the authorisation for the payment to teachers regarding electronic grading. The payment will be made with the August salary.
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The number of teachers who retired this academic year was slightly below the 2024/25 academic year. The trend of a “structural shortage of teachers” continues.
The union structure guarantees it has received reports of teachers being “urged by school and cluster management to go to administrative services to change their already authorised holiday periods”
The Fenprof union reports that teachers are facing unacceptable levels of pressure.
The union claims to have received reports of teachers being summoned to change already approved holidays due to delays in the grading and re-evaluation process of exams. It is requesting intervention from the IGEC.
The delay in the start of the school year and other scheduling issues are causing ongoing stress for many teaching professionals.
The National Federation of Teachers (Fenprof) considers the remuneration model announced by the ministry for teachers grading national exams, specifically the payment of one euro per evaluated response, to be absolutely unacceptable and an “affront”. “Fenprof considers this treatment an affront to teachers and an insult to their intelligence and professional dignity”, ...
The payment of one euro per evaluated response is being contested. The federation says the remuneration model is an affront to the intelligence and professional dignity of teachers.
Teachers grading national secondary school exams will receive one euro for each classified response and 12 euros for each re-evaluated exam.
The Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation informed that teachers grading national secondary school exams will receive one euro for each classified response and 12 euros for each re-evaluated exam paper.
From the Swiss franc to the cost of living in Paris, EPE teachers denounce accumulated losses since 2009 and reject the revision of the legal regime proposed by the Government.
Less than 24 hours ago, some teachers received hundreds of items to grade. “All of this is creating difficulties” in preparing for the new school year, laments the Fenprof secretary-general.
The deadline for grading exams has been extended until Wednesday. There are teachers who are still missing continuation sheets and who have many doubts regarding the “credibility” of the entire process.
There are also reports of access failures on the platform, a shortage of continuation sheets, and teachers who, to date, have never received items to grade.
Teachers have until the end of this Tuesday to grade all test items. However, some teachers are unable to properly access the platform. This Monday, some received further instructions to grade responses even if pages are missing.
Teachers have been called in to complete the grading of exams by Tuesday.
With the deadline ending on Tuesday, MEP reports technical failures, missing sheets, and a lack of instructions from EduQA. Results are expected on the 17th.
Missão Escola Pública (MEP) reported that several teachers were summoned to grade national secondary school exams on the eve of the deadline for finalising grades.
Teachers have until Tuesday to grade all items on the national exams. Incomplete answers, mixed-up continuation sheets, and last-minute summons lead teachers to question whether they will have the necessary conditions to grade all the questions.
Filinto Lima, from the National Association of Directors of Groups and Public Schools, believes that the payment of overtime to teacher graders, announced by the PSD on Saturday, “will generate a wave of injustice and a wave of misunderstanding.”
Teachers will be compensated for extra hours worked during the 12-hour exam period.
