The new school year begins with the Minister of Education, Fernando Alexandre, highlighting that half of the teacher shortage in Portugal is concentrated in Greater Lisbon. This geographic concentration represents one of the main challenges for the national education sector.
Fernando Alexandre expressed the intention to reverse the negative trend in Portugal's results in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which evaluates school performance internationally.
The minister directly criticized the previous governments of the Socialist Party, led by António Costa, stating that no effective measures were taken to solve the structural problems of education in Portugal.
The situation highlights inequalities in access to quality education between different regions of the country, with the Lisbon metropolitan area facing a particularly acute shortage of teachers.
