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Between Wednesday – the date of the beginning of the first phase of access to public higher education – and midnight Friday, a total of 14,657 students submitted their applications to universities and polytechnic institutes through portal of the Directorate General of Higher Education (DGES). On the first day of this year's applications – traditionally the strongest of the access phase – 7462 students applied for the DGES portal when, in 2017, the phase had begun with 8065 candidates. In the second and third days of this year, on average, there were about 600 fewer requests than last year.
Faced with the DN with these data, António Fontainhas Fernandes, president of the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities (CRUP) did not rule out the possibility of a reduction in access, even if It should be noted that the application period has just begun.
Less interested among the finalists of high school
The rector of the University of Trás-Os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) admitted that the institutions supervise the competitions this year " with a lot of hope ", given some worrying indicators. "There are two elements to take into account: first, the difficulties of the exams, namely mathematics [do secundário] which have been widely disseminated by the media." [pelo Júri Nacional de Exames] also revealed that only half of the students who finish high school have shown an interest in pursuing higher education ":
It is recalled that the average of Mathematics A exams this year in the first phase recorded a drop of 0.6 points, to 10.9 points, with The discipline rate also increased to 14%, one percentage point more than last year. The test in question was criticized, particularly with regard to the classification criteria, and also had the distinction of combining (optional) questions from two different programs in the discipline.
Student interest, National Exam Jury data, released last month by the Ministry of Education, among the 161,306 students enrolled in the national secondary exams this year, only 87,765 – a little more half – declared their intention to apply for higher education.
The DN interviewed the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education on the trends of demands in those early days but has not yet received an answer
It is recalled In this first phase of access, there are 50 852 posts, with the particularity of having reduced by 10066 places (about 5%) to Lisbon and Porto, which has given rise to more vacancies in other parts of the country. [19659002] In 2017, the first phase of access to higher education was completed with 52,580 candidates. In the current year, the deadline for submitting applications is 7 August.
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