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Claiming on School Insurance (Seguro Escolar) in Portugal
What Portugal's school insurance pays when a child is hurt at school or on the way, what it excludes, and the steps that keep a claim valid.
Education
Education
An Azorean Student Pays at Most 89 Euros to Fly to the Mainland, and the Socialists Want the Rest of the Journey Off the Tax Bill
Francisco Cesar told the regional Socialist Youth congress in Horta on Sunday that flights should count as an education expense for IRS, and announced a regional accommodation supplement for students who study off their own island.
Education
One Lisbon Music School's Injunction Has Frozen the Whole Country's Artistic-Education Funding, and the Ministry Cannot Say When the Lists Will Appear
Acordarte, which runs the Academia de Musica de Lisboa, challenged the 14 August sponsorship-contract tender as manifestly illegal and unconstitutional. Filing the case automatically barred the ministry from publishing the provisional lists, and the school year has started.
Education
Portugal Finished 402 Specialised Technology Centres in Its Schools for 500 Million Euros, Thirty-Seven More Than the Target
The education minister announced the total in Beja while inaugurating two of them, and put the overshoot at about 40. Against a target of 365, the arithmetic gives 37.
Education
Lisbon Families Whose Children Still Show as Not Placed Are Taking the Education Ministry to Court, and the Desk That Used to Place Them by Hand Is Gone
Term has started and the Portal das Matriculas still reads Nao Colocado. The parents have formed a group and are preparing to sue. Two teachers explain what disappeared when the DGEstE was folded into the new AGSE: the only people who could see the whole network.
Health
A 1962 Decree Still Bars an Unvaccinated Child From Sitting an Exam in a Portuguese School, and This Week the State Deleted the Page That Said So
Decreto-Lei n.o 44198 has never been amended in 64 years. The education ministry and the DGS both say vaccination cannot block enrolment, which describes practice accurately and the statute not at all.
Education
The Education Minister Will Pilot a Single Six-Year Basic Cycle in 2027/28, and First Cycle Teachers Would Lose Three Hours of Their 25-Hour Week
Fernando Alexandre says a pilot merging the first and second cycles will run in 2027/28, with the curricular matrix under revision. Teacher federations and parents' associations object to the pace and to the silence on how it works.