Public Higher Education in Portugal: financing, privatization and precariousness
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Higher Education, Financing, New Public Management, Teacher Profession, PrecariousnessAbstract
In this article, the authors reflect on the chronic underfunding of public higher education in Portugal and some of its effects on the privatization of this educational segment and on the growing precariousness of the teaching profession. In a context of significant advances in higher education in recent decades, whose numbers of enrollments confirm, there are some observable setbacks since the late 1980s, namely the re-implementation of a tuition fee policy (attendance rates) and the brutal decrease in funding of the State in public higher education alongside the growing precariousness and aging of the teaching function, setbacks that are based, to a large extent, on the new neoliberal management policies of the ‘public thing’.
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