Portugal Spends Less per Student in Higher Education than at Any Other Level of Education
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The education systems are as strong as their teachers, says Mathias Cornmann, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the editorial published in the international study, whose cross-cutting theme is the shortage of teachers in the world. Only 13.4% of Portuguese teachers are happy with their salary, according to the OECD study, which places Portugal in the last place of this table. Portuguese teac…
Report shows Portuguese specificities: the high weight of European funds in financing higher education, the reduction for half of young people without secondary education and large gender differences.
Higher education is the level of education with the highest public funding per student in most OECD countries
From the first cycle to the university, the expenditure of the Portuguese State per student was around 10,206 euros per year in 2023, slightly below the OECD average of 11,962 euros.
Higher education is the level of education with the highest public funding per student in most OECD countries, but not in Portugal, where a university student costs the State less than a high school student.
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