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EACEA National Policies Platform:Eurydice

Key features of the Education System

The education system is administered at:
  • national level by the Ministry of Education (MoEd)
  • central level, governance is ensured in cooperation with other ministries (for example, the Ministry of Finances for the funding allocated to educational institutions/establishments) and institutional settings subordinated to the Government,

2024

Access to quality education 

  • Support for school students during the transition between high-school education and higher education with the implementation of grants for bridge summer programmes, as well as support for university students at risk of dropout in their first year at university by implementing projects for learnings centre and student support in universities (funded under the Romanian Secondary Project).
 

Key features of the education system

Governance

Education in Portugal is organised according to the democratic principles established by the Constitution of the Republic (1976), particularly the freedom to teach and learn (Art. No 43), as well as citizens’ rights and duties of the state in this area (Art. No 73-77). These same principles were the foundation of the Education Act (1986), which defines educational objectives, structures and modes of organisation.

2025

 

2024

Specialised Technology Centres (CTE)

Created to improve vocational education and speed up the implementation of the funds from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) for the specialised technology centres (CTE) in schools, the ministers for education, science and innovation and territorial cohesion began a series of meetings with school boards and municipalities to implement the specialised technology centres.

2025

Digital resources: guaranteed connectivity services for pupils and schools

It is essential that schools have the technical and pedagogical conditions necessary for quality education and that they ensure equal opportunities for all students throughout the country, particularly in terms of access to and use of digital resources.

2025

Increased provision of pre-school education for 3-year-olds from 2025/2026 on

The Council of Ministers in March 2025 approved the opening of 200 new pre-school classrooms in the next school year for children aged 3 and over.

Structure of the chapter

This chapter provides a thematic and chronological overview of national reforms and policy developments in the education sector since 2023. The web pages that follow group reforms in the following broad thematic areas:

Key features of the Education System

Since the political transformation (the collapse of the communist regime) in 1989, the Polish education system has undergone profound changes in nearly all of its aspects including the structure, organization, management and the core curriculum. As a result it has developed some specific features which can be described as follows:

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