Society

More than 20,000 re-grade requests — triple last year's — have hit Portugal's national exams after the first all-digital marking, with final results due 7 August and university places on the line.

The government has confined the €750 monthly bonus for teachers who delay retirement to the eight zones where schools are hardest to staff — Greater Lisbon, Setúbal and the Algarve — and scrapped fixed hiring rounds for a rolling competition, both under its '+ Aulas + Sucesso' plan for the new schoo