The Reform of the Portuguese Higher Education System
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5380/re.v35i3.16711Keywords:
Educação superior, reforma, PortugalAbstract
The European university faces a period of major reforms with a twofold
purpose of improving not only the effi ciency in the face of scarce public fi nancialresources, but also the effi cacy of the response to the knowledge society needs.Despite the effort of articulation represented by the Bologna process, the rhythm
of reforms is directed related to national policy agenda of each country and these
agendas do not always seem to converge. There are many reforms in course in
Portugal that promise to change the face of its higher education. The massive access
to higher education took place with a considerable delay in relation to most
European countries requiring institutions to change very fast in recent years. The
accelerated growth in demand led to the creation of a private sector that absorbed
half of the students. However, this sector was reduced later on without achieving
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