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Education and Integration of Migrants in Portugal

Education and Integration of Migrants in Portugal. Context. Portugal have immigrant students from 120 different nationalities. Traditionally. Immigrant students from former Portuguese Territories, and since 1974/1975 independent countries. ./.

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Education and Integration of Migrants in Portugal

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  1. Education and Integration of Migrantsin Portugal

  2. Context Portugal have immigrant students from 120 different nationalities Traditionally Immigrant students from former Portuguese Territories, and since 1974/1975 independent countries ./.. Immigrant students from European Union and other weastern countries Since 1990 Immigrant students from Brasil Since 2000 Immigrant students from Eastern Europe, whose parents present more diversified levels of education and have, in general, positive school expectations.

  3. Enrolment of immigrant students (%) [1] European Union 14.7% Eastern Europe 7.5% Others 14.7% Brazil 12.9% PALOP 50.2% [1] School year 2003/2004; Enrolments in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, …, 9th grade of compulsory education, and 10th, 11th and 12th grades of upper-secondary education

  4. Enrolment numbers… Enrolment numbers (public and private schools, 2006/2007) Preliminary data

  5. Enrolment numbers (youngest/non-adult education)… Enrolment numbers (public and private schools, 2006/2007) Preliminary data

  6. Enrolment of immigrant students (%) Private 10.0% Public 90.0% School year 2006/2007; ISCED123; Preliminary data

  7. Plan for Immigrant Integration Education for All Immigrants and school +

  8. Plan for Immigrant Integration Join effort of several Ministries (Education; Health; Justice; Labour and Social Solidarity; Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development; …) and non-governmental organizations to promote inclusion. * High Commissioner for Immigration and Ethnic Minorities

  9. Education for All Three key principles: • Nobody should be left behind. • The basic competences should be acquired in school and developed during the course of a lifetime in formal and non-formal contexts. • The goals to improve the access to education and success should be ambitious; the measures should be realistic and attainable.

  10. Education for All Integrated set of policies to solve school leaving and grade repetition… … Involving, in the field of education, policy measures directed towards vulnerable groups… … And, consequently, to those immigrant students which belong to a vulnerable group.

  11. Education policies for migrant integration

  12. Education policies for migrant integration ADULTS 117 examination centres 38,000 examinations * National system for recognition, validation and certification of competencies (RVCC), acquired in formal, non-formal or informal settings, which enable adults to obtain a dual certification (academic and professional)

  13. Policies by the Ministry of Education direct towards vulnerable groups To create an environment of equal opportunities regarding education, and ensure equal access: • Enlarging the pre-primary school offer; • School social support; • Diversified education and training paths; • Learning’recovery plans; • Integration of children with individual education needs in regular schools; • TEIP Program - Priority Intervention Education Territories Program • (School year 2006/2007: 35 school groups; 176 schools; 44,911 students).

  14. Challenges • To achieve the specific and transversal measures in the Immigration Integration Plan. • Evaluate and expand the TEIP program 100 school groups. • To involve school mediators (mediators in a school context). • To strengthen teacher training.

  15. Isabel Oliveira isabel.oliveira@dgidc.min-edu.pt General-Directorate for Inovation and Curriculum Development Joaquim Santos joaquim.santos@gepe.min-edu.pt Office for Education Statistics and Planning

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