Education and Integration of Migrants in Portugal

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Education and Integration of Migrantsin Portugal
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Context
Portugal have immigrant students from 120
different nationalities
Traditionally
Immigrant students from former Portuguese
Territories, and since 1974/1975 independent
countries
./..
Immigrant students from European Union and other
weastern countries
Since 1990
Immigrant students from Brasil
Since 2000
Immigrant students from Eastern Europe, whose
parents present more diversified levels of
education and have, in general, positive school
expectations.
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Enrolment of immigrant students () 1
European Union 14.7
Eastern Europe 7.5
Others 14.7
Brazil 12.9
PALOP 50.2
1 School year 2003/2004 Enrolments in 1st,
2nd, 3rd, , 9th grade of compulsory education,
and 10th, 11th and 12th grades of upper-secondary
education
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Enrolment numbers
Enrolment numbers (public and private schools,
2006/2007)
Level of education Type of education Students enrolled Native students Immigrant students Immigrant students
Level of education Type of education N N N
ISCED 123 Total 1,422,937 1,358,113 64,824 4.6
ISCED 123 Public 1,233,249 1,174,935 58,314 4.7
ISCED 123 Private 189,688 183,178 6,510 3.4
ISCED 1 Public 630,941 602,278 28,663 4.5
ISCED 1 Private 79,089 77,036 2,053 2.6
ISCED 2 Public 329,315 311,838 17,477 5.3
ISCED 2 Private 46,663 45,244 1,419 3.0
ISCED 3 Public 272,993 260,819 12,174 4.5
ISCED 3 Private 63,936 60,898 3,038 4.8
Preliminary data
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Enrolment numbers (youngest/non-adult education)
Enrolment numbers (public and private schools,
2006/2007)
Level of education Type of education Students enrolled Native students Immigrant students Immigrant students
Level of education Type of education N N N
ISCED 123 Total 1,349,206 1,289,837 59,369 4.4
ISCED 123 Public 1,168,111 1,114,871 53,240 4.6
ISCED 123 Private 181,095 174,966 6,129 3.4
ISCED 1 Public 628,878 600,498 28,380 4.5
ISCED 1 Private 78,955 76,910 2,045 2.6
ISCED 2 Public 319,380 303,493 15,887 5.0
ISCED 2 Private 45,602 44,271 1,331 2.9
ISCED 3 Public 219,853 210,880 8,973 4.1
ISCED 3 Private 56,538 53,785 2,753 4.9
Preliminary data
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Enrolment of immigrant students ()
Private 10.0
Public 90.0
School year 2006/2007 ISCED123 Preliminary data
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Immigrants and school

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Plan for Immigrant Integration
Join effort of several Ministries (Education
Health Justice Labour and Social Solidarity
Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional
Development ) and non-governmental
organizations to promote inclusion.
High Commissioner for Immigration and Ethnic
Minorities
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Education for All

• Three key principles
• Nobody should be left behind.
• The basic competences should be acquired in
  school and developed during the course of a
  lifetime in formal and non-formal contexts.
• The goals to improve the access to education and
  success should be ambitious the measures should
  be realistic and attainable.

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Education for All
Integrated set of policies to solve school
leaving and grade repetition Involving, in the
field of education, policy measures directed
towards vulnerable groups And, consequently,
to those immigrant students which belong to a
vulnerable group.
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Education policies for migrant integration
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Education policies for migrant integration
ADULTS
117 examination centres 38,000 examinations
National system for recognition, validation and
certification of competencies (RVCC), acquired in
formal, non-formal or informal settings, which
enable adults to obtain a dual certification
(academic and professional)
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Policies by the Ministry of Education direct
towards vulnerable groups

• To create an environment of equal opportunities
  regarding education, and ensure equal access
• Enlarging the pre-primary school offer
• School social support
• Diversified education and training paths
• Learningrecovery plans
• Integration of children with individual education
  needs in regular schools
• TEIP Program - Priority Intervention Education
  Territories Program
• (School year 2006/2007 35 school groups 176
  schools 44,911 students).

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Challenges

• To achieve the specific and transversal measures
  in the Immigration Integration Plan.
• Evaluate and expand the TEIP program 100 school
  groups.
• To involve school mediators (mediators in a
  school context).
• To strengthen teacher training.

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• Isabel Oliveira
• isabel.oliveira_at_dgidc.min-edu.pt
• General-Directorate for Inovation and Curriculum
  Development
• Joaquim Santos
• joaquim.santos_at_gepe.min-edu.pt
• Office for Education Statistics and Planning