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Last week, in a text on educational policies, it was recalled the fundamental importance of education for the dignified treatment and protection of animals, together with an environmental education that allows the understanding and reading of the world. When I wrote it…

Portugal is in an absolutely contradictory situation and at the same time unacceptable we can even say inadmissible! Our country is able to produce much more and at different levels, however the degradation of the productive apparatus of agriculture, fisheries and…

As far as school management is concerned, at the time of adopting extraordinary measures because of the pandemic and the necessary return to school of all students, the word autonomy is propagated to the four winds in political discourse. There is no memory of a word so…

Since 1945, the North American Air Force has been present at Lajes Base, on Terceira Island. Through the long history of coexistence between Portugal and the United States, bonds of friendship between the Terceirenses and the North Americans were created, but, mainly, an…

Paulo Porto Fernandes In Portugal, European, North American, Canadian academic degrees and some Brazilian degrees are automatically recognized, however, the same is not true for academic degrees from third countries in the field of Medicine, with Venezuela being listed…

Educational policies: Part I Up to 2 years of age, children’s bonding and emotional security are essential for their development. But the current legislation does not allow, by option, one of the parents to dedicate this time to the care and development of the…

Continuing teacher education is enshrined in the Statute of the Teaching Career (ECD) and, until about a decade ago, it allowed teachers to do free training in didactic, pedagogical or other areas relevant to teaching. The educational use of the Internet, basic digital…

The priorities of the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, chaired by Germany this semester, are truly ambitious. Indeed, the main intention is to conclude the negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework and the Recovery Plan before the summer…

Paulo Porto Fernandes Many associations of the Portuguese diaspora, established abroad, were founded in the fifties, sixties and seventies, always following the different waves of Portuguese emigration, being a way of bringing together compatriots in the distant host…

The Assembly of the Republic rejected the end of public money financing from bullfighting. For the proposed bills, which include a Citizens ‘Legislative Initiative, political options are at stake regarding the way in which taxpayers’ money has been used in…