The new conditions for access to public higher education, unveiled this Thursday, provide for a priority cohort for needy students, with 2% of vacancies in each cycle of study for beneficiaries of the lowest social action level.
This measure is featured in the note “Changes in Completion of Secondary Education and Access to Higher Education” published by the Ministries of Education and Higher Education.
The document justifies this measure by the need to “encourage justice and opportunity.”
This priority population, which will be applied in phases, will be covered by applicants who benefit from Step A of School Social Action (ASE).
Step A ASE, the first and lowest of the three, corresponds this academic year to the first step of the family allowance for students whose annual family income does not exceed 3,071.67 euros.
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education clarified to Luse that the application of the measure will start in 2023 as a pilot project with voluntary higher education institutions (universities, polytechnics and high schools).
The measure will be rolled out to more institutions and evaluated in 2024 before rolling out to the entire country in 2025.
On January 5, in statements to Luce, Secretary of State for Higher Education Pedro Teixeira acknowledged that the contingent could probably be “introduced this year”, allowing “the best of the poorest students” to have “course preference”. and institution” of higher education.
According to a document released this Thursday, the new contingent, which could be rolled out across the country, would quadruple the number of vacancies compared to measures originally envisaged only for students in schools in priority intervention areas, that is, schools located in more problematic areas. where it is more difficult to fight poverty and school failure.
The document reinforces the replacement of the designation “special quotas” of the national competition for access to state higher education with “priority quotas”, translating “the true characteristic of priority between candidates with identical qualification conditions.”
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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