Only 12.7 percent of Portugal's lower secondary principals are satisfied with their salary, the lowest share in the OECD's TALIS 2024 survey and down from 27.2 percent in 2018. They are also older and more stressed than the OECD average.
Portugal's Ombudsman has found that a Catholic blessing at the opening of a Cascais state school raises a question under the law on Church and State, according to a secularist group, echoing the Religious Freedom Commission. Neither opinion is binding.
The form for the salary premium of 697 euros a year per bachelor's year and 1,500 euros per master's year has not opened since 2024, and the deadline in the rules has passed. Here is who qualifies, how much it pays and what is known now.
Councils are owed hundreds of thousands of euros for school meals, and Odivelas already has 510,408 euros in tax enforcement. Nothing in the law changed today. Who gets free or half-price meals, how to apply mid-year, and how to pay a debt in instalments.
Portugal's Supreme Court of Justice says a school cannot discipline a pupil using messages from a closed WhatsApp group passed on without her consent. What the Estatuto do Aluno says about hearings and appeals.
EduQA released the 2026 ModA results to schools and families on 20 October. National averages rose in maths and written Portuguese but fell in reading, and just 738 of the 1,477 Year 4 pupils entered for the B1 test in Portuguese as a non-native language sat it.
The GNR has recorded 1,657 crimes in the school environment this year, 72 linked to bullying and six to cyberbullying. Bullying is not a crime in its own right in Portugal. Here is what the GNR and the Ministry of Education tell parents to do.
