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School delays are a "needle in a haystack" in exam digitization problems

Público29 August 2026 at 16:44

School delays are a "needle in a haystack" in exam digitization problems

FENPROF and Missão Escola Pública accuse the Ministry of diverting focus from platform problems and failures that affected grading, re-evaluation and delivery of tests.

The two union organizations consider that the Ministry of Education is using delays observed in some schools as a distraction from the broader problems related to the digital platform used for exams. These entities point to failures that affected grading, re-evaluation and delivery of tests to students.

FENPROF and Missão Escola Pública argue that the digitization problems of exams are not limited to occasional delays in some schools, but rather to structural issues of the platform used. The organizations emphasize that it is necessary to focus on the deficiencies of the digital system to guarantee the fairness and quality of the assessment process.

The Ministry of Education, for its part, argued that the delays were only occasional situations and do not represent systemic failures in the digitization of national exams.

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