There are fewer and fewer lead shots, but the Algarve and the Lisbon region are a concern
The academic success of students is improving, but there are phenomena in areas of the country that are of concern to the Ministry of Education, such as early dropout in the Algarve or lead-in in the Lisbon metropolitan area.
Fewer and fewer students fail or drop out of school early, according to the report “School Results: Success and Equity”, by the Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics (DGEEC), released today, which analyzes the evolution between the academic years of 2017/2018 and 2019/2020.
Improvements were registered in all teaching cycles, but the highlight that success is “long report and covering all students”.
The most complicated situation continues to be in secondary education students (33%) are unable to complete their studies in the three years foreseen.
However, this cycle was also the one that saw the biggest improvement, rising ten percentage points between 2018 and 2020.
If 018, only 57% of students of 018 students, only 57% of students 27 secondary courses in the expected time, in 2020, the percentage has risen to 67%.
In professional courses, the rise was only two percentage points, from 63% to 65% in 2020.
Regarding the youngest, in 2020, 89% finished the 1st cycle in the expected time (3% more than in 2018); in the 2nd cycle, the percentage of completion of the expected time was 95% in 2020 (4% more than in 2018) and in the 3rd cycle it rose from 80% to 86%.
Through a “zoom” to cities and clusters, the Ministry of Education confirms that the specialized work of teachers and technicians can make a difference.
The Minister of Education, João Costa, highlighted “regional asymmetries”, “the Algarve has more concerns, as well as the metropolitan areas”.
Regional differences coincide with the level of teaching results without schools in the North as the best, as opposed to the areas of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Baixo Alentejo.
“The care of a much more important analysis of the Algarve”, because when we look at the levels of early school leaving it is clearly an “out of early school leaving, we have a more positive evolution of early school leaving and the Algarve has a behavior of normal and important” – to analyze in more depth what is going on.
For now, the minister only managed to find that “there are correlations with poverty rates in metropolitan areas and also in the Algarve”.
In the 1st cycle, for example, schools in the North appear with indications of completion in the highest expected time, as opposed to the south of the country.