Reviews of National Policies for Education: Tertiary Education in Portugal 2007
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.
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Institutional Governance
In this chapter on governance, the review team looks at international trends in governance, before turning to the current situation in Portugal, in universities, polytechnics and the private sector. It examines challenges in the areas of autonomy, selfregulation and leadership. The chapter proposes a strengthening of the institutional level within universities and polytechnics, thereby reducing the number of relatively autonomous organisational units within the system.
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