The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, promulgated this Monday a decree-law that changes the legal regime of professional qualifications for teaching in preschools, as well as in basic and secondary education.
The announcement of this diploma was published on the president’s website.
On February 22, the government approved in the Council of Ministers an extension of the period given to higher education institutions so that they can adapt or amend the new rules necessary for those who want to become teachers.
This decision introduced changes to the decree-law on the legal regime of professional qualifications for teaching in preschool education, as well as in the system of basic and secondary education.
The press service of the Ministry of Education then explained to Lusa that the goal was to “make the model of conducting supervised teaching practice more flexible in order to strengthen the scientific and pedagogical autonomy of higher education institutions” and that the change was subject to “the deadline given to higher education institutions to make changes and corrections to certain aspects of the required credits”, for example, regarding “the length of courses for those already holding master’s and doctoral degrees, which increases to three semesters” .
The new diploma, which defines the rules of access to the teaching profession, aims to “attract more candidates to the profession and retain more specialists to meet the pedagogical needs of the educational system.”
With an increasingly aging class in which more than half of teachers are over 50, and an increasing number of retirees, estimates point to a shortage of 34,500 teachers within six years unless efforts are made to attract teachers.
The guardianship has taken some measures, such as the return of paid internships, increasing the staff of the pedagogical zone, in order to reduce the distances for teacher employment or to make it easier to enter the career.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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