Reviews of National Policies for Education
Subtitle: Tertiary Education in Portugal 2007
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: Reviews of national policies for education; Reviews of National Policies for Education
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9789264009769
Subjects: Education
Description: Portugal’s tertiary education sector has expanded significantly over the last 20 years, but participation and overall educational attainment levels remain below European standards and enrolment rates have begun to decline. The OECD review recommends that Portugal’s national government should focus on strategic direction and leave higher education institutions wider latitude for accomplishing public priorities consistent with their mission. Among its proposals for reform, the review calls for the creation of a National Council on Higher Education to oversee Portugal’s higher education strategy. The review also calls for major changes in the governance and management of higher education institutions to bring them into line with national goals, encourage their responsiveness and efficiency, and improve their quality.  Improving research and innovation is a key strategic objective of the Portuguese government, and the OECD review suggests a number of qualitative changes in Portugal’s tertiary education system to enhance performance in this area.
Table of contents: title: Executive Summary; title: Introduction and Context; title: System Diversity and System Co-ordination; title: Institutional Governance; title: Educational Programmes: Access, Quality and Relevance; title: Research, Innovation and Internationalisation; title: Financing Tertiary Education; title: Conclusions; title: Annexes.