Portugal's education reform tackles bureaucracy but faces teacher shortages
In his opening remarks before the parliamentary committee, Portugal's Minister of Education, Science, and Higher Education, Fernando Alexandre, focused on the ongoing reform of the Education Ministry—a restructuring that will consolidate 16 separate agencies into just seven. The overhaul also aims to streamline and rationalize the ministry's fragmented IT infrastructure, which currently comprises "313 information systems that do not communicate with one another."
Yet it was the pressing issue of teacher shortages and students left without classes that quickly dominated the debate.
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