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Portugal exam delays spark calls for education minister's resignation over digital system failure
Portugal education minister warns schools to release exam results by Friday amid hundreds of ungraded tests
Portugal's introduction of a new digital marking system for school-leaving exams has caused significant delays and issues, affecting students' ability to apply for university or prepare for retakes. The problems have led to calls for the resignation or reevaluation of the Education Minister and demands for the elimination of fees for exam re-evaluations.
The new digital system, intended to modernize the exam process, has been criticized for its poor implementation. Commentators speculate that the conservative government's role in the reform and other factors may have exacerbated the problems. Expresso, a Portuguese newspaper, wrote that the government should have ensured the new system was up and running before making cuts at the Ministry of Education. "On the eve of the greatest technological challenge ever faced by the assessment system, the structure that was capable of managing the complex annual logistics of thousands of paper-based exams was dismantled," Expresso stated. "There is no technology that can solve the problems created by a state that lacks knowledge and experience."
Diário de Notícias, another Portuguese newspaper, argued that the Minister for Education, Fernando Alexandre, should be given credit for his courage in bringing about far-reaching changes. "Fernando Alexandre has something in his favor in this affair. Even if the controversy brings him down, he at least tried to modernize an archaic classification system that consumed countless resources and attempted to bring it into the 21st century," Diário de Notícias wrote.
The President of Portugal, António José Seguro, has expressed concern about the issues with the exams and called for a sense of urgency and equality in resolving the problems. In a message published on the presidency's website, Seguro stated that the problems in correcting exams and publishing results have caused "understandable concern and anxiety" among students and teachers. He called on the government to ensure equality among all students and to learn from the issues to prevent them from recurring in the second phase of exams.
Political parties PCP and BE are demanding the elimination of fees for exam re-evaluations. Fabian Figueiredo, a representative from PCP, stated that the exemption of the 25 euro fee for re-evaluation has national consensus.
In Romania, the Ministry of Education and Research has proposed grants ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 lei for students who achieved perfect scores on their national exams. The proposal includes 2,000 lei for each eighth-grade graduate who achieved a perfect score on the National Evaluation and 5,000 lei for each high school graduate who achieved a perfect score on the baccalaureate exam. The total cost of the grants is estimated at 479,000 lei, which will be covered by the ministry's approved budget for 2026.
The issues with exam results have also affected university applications in Romania. Only 300 students applied for higher education on the first day of the application period, compared to 10,000 the previous year. The delay in receiving final grades has been cited as a reason for the low number of applications.
The second phase of exams in Portugal, which was delayed, began on Tuesday and will run until Friday. President Seguro has emphasized the importance of ensuring that the problems from the first phase do not recur in the second phase.
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