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Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Portugal

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Collection of interdependent institutions devoted to higher education in Portugal

Definition

Set of institutions, structures and processes delivering higher education coordinated by the Portuguese State.

Higher Education System Development

Portugal is a sovereign country on the Iberian Peninsula, in southwest Europe, with a total territorial area of 92,090 km2. The Republic of Portugal also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, autonomous regions with their own regional governments. In 1974, Portugal became a democracy after a 48-year period of dictatorship. Since 1986, it has been a member of the European Union. The present socioeconomic context is marked by a demographic slowdown, an aging of the Portuguese population, and a steady decrease of the illiteracy rate (see Table 1).

Table 1 Key socioeconomic indicators, Portugal. http://www.pordata.pt/Portugal, BI Portugal, at 23rd January 2017
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  1. Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Amélia Veiga

  2. Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE), Porto, Portugal

    Amélia Veiga

  3. Centre for Higher Education on Policies Studies (CIPES), Matosinhos, Portugal

    Amélia Veiga

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  1. School of Education, Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Barbara M. Kehm

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Veiga, A. (2018). Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Portugal. In: Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_376-1

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