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In the beginnings of the Portuguese nationality, the Christian clergy was the main player in the educational endeavour. Portuguese universities have existed since 1290.Within the scope of the Portuguese Empire, the Portuguese founded in 1792 the oldest engineering school of Latin America (the Real Academia de Artilharia, Fortificação e Desenho), as well as the oldest medical college of Asia ...
Headquarters of the New University of Lisbon. In Portugal, university and college attendance before the 1960s, including for the period of Portuguese monarchy which ended in 1910, and for most of the Estado Novo regime (1920s – 1974), was very limited to the tiny elites, like members of the bourgeoisie and high ranked political and military authorities.
The Education Index is a component of the Human Development Index (HDI) published every year by the United Nations Development Programme. Alongside the economical indicators ( GDP ) and Life Expectancy Index , it helps measure the educational attainment .
Tertiary education is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education. The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including universities as well as institutions that teach specific capacities of higher learning such as colleges, technical training institutes, community colleges, nursing ...
2018 rank 2018 score 2017 rank 2017 score 2016 rank 2016 score 2015 rank 2015 score 2014 rank 2014 score Global Competitiveness Report: N/A: N/A: 42nd 4.57 46th 4.48 38th 4.52 36th 4.54 World Competitiveness Ranking: 33rd 76.219 39th N/A: 39th N/A: N/A: N/A: N/A: N/A: Index of Economic Freedom: 72nd 63.4 77th 62.6 64th 65.1 64th 65.3 69th 63.5
School clothing has been introduced in a small number of schools, for example in Hamburg-Sinstorf in 2000, and in Friesenheim and Haag (Oberbayern) in 2005. In these cases the clothes are collections of shirts, sweaters, and the like, catering to contemporary fashion senses. Uniforms in a more traditional sense are almost never proposed in earnest.
This list shows the government spending on education of various countries and subnational areas by percent (%) of GDP (1989–2022). It does not include private expenditure on education. It does not include private expenditure on education.
This list of universities and colleges in Portugal gives the Portuguese institutions providing higher education. Higher education in Portugal is organized into two systems: university and polytechnic. There are public and private higher education institutions.