Modernising Secondary School Buildings in Portugal
The quality of school buildings is critically important in the drive for improving education. Good quality facilities provide teachers and students with supportive environments which are responsive to their changing needs and can make a real difference to learning and teaching.
This report is a review of the Portuguese Secondary School Building Modernisation Programme (SMP), a major programme to rehabilitate the secondary schools in Portugal.
Introduction
Centre pour des environnements pédagogiques efficaces
In January 2007, the Portuguese government launched a policy to rehabilitate 332 secondary schools by 2015, with a total investment for the first 205 schools of EUR 2.45 billion (Figure 1.1).