The Ministry of Education spent 65 million euros on external contracts since 2013, with almost half of that value contracted in the last 19 months.
Between 2025 and July 2026, 65 contracts worth more than 29 million euros were identified. The two largest contracts are related to digital educational resources under the PRR.
Deloitte signed 11 contracts since 2023, totaling five million euros. These contracts include services related to the digitization and grading of national exams.
Readers in Portugal are directly affected because their taxes fund these public contracts, and the concentration of almost half of total expenditure in a period of just 19 months raises questions about transparency and prioritization in the management of public education funds. The significant involvement of external consultants like Deloitte in processes such as the grading of national exams may have implications for the quality and independence of these public services.
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