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Santarém's Military Cavalry School to Become Heart of New Ribatejo Polytechnic University

Santarém's Military Cavalry School to Become Heart of New Ribatejo Polytechnic University

The historic Escola Prática de Cavalaria will anchor Portugal's newest polytechnic institution as regional leaders push to elevate the Ribatejo's higher education infrastructure. Santarém's historic cavalry school — the Escola Prática de Cavalaria —...

Portugal to Integrate Financial Literacy into National Curriculum from Primary School to Secondary

Portugal to Integrate Financial Literacy into National Curriculum from Primary School to Secondary

Portugal's financial regulators and the Ministry of Education have formalized a comprehensive partnership to embed financial literacy across the country's education system, from 1st grade through secondary school, as part of the National Financial...

Saramago May No Longer Be Mandatory Reading as Portugal Proposes Major Literature Curriculum Overhaul

Saramago May No Longer Be Mandatory Reading as Portugal Proposes Major Literature Curriculum Overhaul

Portugal's only Nobel laureate in Literature, José Saramago, could lose mandatory status in secondary schools under a proposed curriculum revision now in public consultation. The draft Aprendizagens Essenciais (Essential Learning Standards) for...

The Nova Split: Why a University Rector's Decree Triggered Portugal's Biggest Academic Crisis in Decades

The Nova Split: Why a University Rector's Decree Triggered Portugal's Biggest Academic Crisis in Decades

The crisis engulfing Universidade Nova de Lisboa this week appears, on its surface, to be about administrative reorganization. A rector issues a decree. A business school protests. Faculty take sides. But the real story is more fundamental: it's...

Nova School of Business Moves to Split From Universidade Nova de Lisboa Over Language Rule Dispute

Nova School of Business Moves to Split From Universidade Nova de Lisboa Over Language Rule Dispute

Portugal's top-ranked business school is set to formally request independence from its parent university in a high-stakes divorce triggered by what administrators describe as bureaucratic constraints and a controversial Portuguese-language naming...