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Who are the international students in Portugal? To find answers, we suggest reading the following article by researchers Cristina Sin and Orlanda Tavares:

Sin, C., Tavares, O., Aguiar, J., & Amaral, A. (2022). More students and more diverse: new trends in international mobility to Portugal. Tertiary Education and Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11233-022-09090-y

This work was preceded by another recent publication reporting on the different profiles of international students enrolled in Portuguese higher education institutions:

Sin, C., Tavares, O., Aguiar, J., Biscaia, R., & Amaral, A. (2021). International students in Portuguese higher education: Who are they and what are their choices? Studies in Higher Education, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2021.1916907

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Sónia Cardoso, researcher of the Permanent Team of OP.Edu, participated in the 34th Annual CHER Conference – Sustainable and Responsive Higher Education, which took place on September 1 and 2.

The researcher coordinated and promoted the Panel Creating responsive and sustainable models of doctoral education in collaboration with three other researchers (Teresa Carvalho, University of Aveiro and CIPES – Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, Corina Balaban, University of Manchester, United Kingdom and Hatice Nuriler, University of Aarhus, Denmark). More information about the Conference can be found here

Sónia Cardoso will be one of the keynote speakers at the 8th International Conference on Professional and Practice-based Doctorates – Authentic and Transformative Learning in Practice-based Doctoral Education, which will take place on 30 and 31 March 2023 at York Racecourse, England.  Find out more about the conference here

   

OP.Edu researcher Sónia Cardoso has recently published the following scientific articles:

• Cardoso, S., Carvalho, T., Rosa, M. J., & Soares, D. (2022). Gender (im)balance in the pool of graduate talent: The Portuguese case. TEAM – Tertiary Education and Management, published online 13 July 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11233-022-09093-9
• Freires, T., Santos, S., & Cardoso, S. (2022) Educação doutoral em Portugal: Mapeamento do cenário [Doctoral education in Portugal: Scenario mapping]. Revista Portuguesa de Educação, 35(1), 264-286. http://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.22610

 

The 1st National Conference on Initial Training of Early Childhood Educators and Teachers: Realities and Perspectives under Debate, organized by OP.Edu – Observatory for Education and Training Policies, ESEL – School of Education of IPLUSO and IE – Institute of Education of Lusófona University, will take place on September 23, 2022, at the José Araújo Auditorium of the Lusófona University, in Lisbon.

Confirmed keynote speakers

António Teodoro (Universidade Lusófona, Instituto de Educação)

Assunção Flores (Universidade do Minho, Instituto de Educação)

Carlos Ceia (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas)

Dalila Lino (Politécnico de Lisboa, Escola Superior de Educação)

Elizabete Eufémia (Associação Tempos Brilhantes)

Ernesto Candeias Martins (Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior de Educação)

Joaquim Escola (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro)

Maria João Cardona (Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, Escola Superior de Educação)

Maria João Mogarro (Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação)

Sílvia Berény (OSMOPE – Organização Social do Movimento das Pontes Educativas)

Vítor Duarte Teodoro (Universidade Lusófona, Instituto de Educação)

Program 

09:30 | Opening session

10:30 | Panel 1: Access to the profession of early childhood educator and teacher

 11.30 | Coffee break

12.00| Panel 2: Study plans for initial training of early childhood educators and teachers: limits and necessary changes

13.00 | Lunch break

14.30 | Panel 3: Initiation to professional practice / supervised teaching practice: The role of institutions, early childhood educators and cooperating teachers

15.30 | Coffee break

16.00 | Panel 4: The clash with professional reality: Experiences of recently graduated early childhood educators and teachers

17:00 | Panel 5: Initial training of early childhood educators and teachers: Critical issues and opportunities

18.00 | Synthesis

 18:15 | Closure: A new social contract for the initial training of teachers and early childhood educators

Coordination of the Organising Committee: Clara Craveiro (OP. Edu, CeiED, ESEPF), Inês Vieira (OP. Edu – Permanent Team, CeiED), José Viegas Brás (IE-Universidade Lusófona, ESEL-IPLUSO, CeiED), Maria Neves Gonçalves (ESEL-IPLUSO, CeiED) e Teresa Teixeira Lopo (OP. Edu – Board of Directors, CeiED).

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Orlanda Tavares  critically reflected on the publication of the school rankings, in the newspaper Público, highlighting the negative effects these may have on schools, teachers, students and families.

She also signaled the need to improve the educational system based on multidimensional information and not just monochromatic information, limited to cognitive performance indicators, such as the ones the publication of rankings seems to offer.

The opinion article can be consulted here