This week in Portugal: tragedy strikes iconic Lisbon funicular, real estate prices continue to climb, as does tuition, and authorities find pear-pickers living in inhumane conditions.
This week: Football millions, reading and the lack thereof, and growing tons of weed.
“Teachers working as nannies despite overcrowded classrooms, doctors cleaning bedpans in short-staffed hospitals and engineers delivering foot on motorcycles despite crumbling infrastructure. Across Europe, millions
“The value [sic] of international tuition fees varies between €3,000 and €7,000 per year,” TPN writes.
The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA 2022) shows Portuguese 15-year-olds scoring around the OECD average in math, reading, and science — but well above average for various aspects of well-being and happiness.
“The number of international schools in Europe has grown by 32% in the last decade, which is further evidenced by the 93% increase in the
“…Portugal, is believed to have welcomed more than 58,000 Ukrainians, of which about a quarter are minors. But only some 32 per cent of these
The number of educators in Portugal’s public school system shrunk from 185,157 in 2005 to 150,127 in 2021. That number is set to decrease even further in the coming years.
Who indeed?! “The typical cocaine user in Portugal is young, male and educated according to a new survey regarding European drug use,” The Portugal News