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Vocational Education

The devaluation of vocational education, which is reflected in the successive budget cuts that schools suffer, has been reflected in the absence of conditions that students face.
In IPTA – Advanced Technologies Professional Institute, the workload has increased and therefore the time for the PAP – Project Fitness practice, indispensable for completing the course – decreased. With the extension of that workload is imposed on more stage time students, where these are, in general, used as free labor, work. The rooms where students have classes are plywood, with no conditions.

 

The School of Fashion at the Port there are also problems arising from the lack of funding. The Directorate of Regional Porto PCP Organization recently met with the leadership of the school, which became aware of the difficult situation in which this is due to incomprehensible delays in transferring funds to school. Second was possible to ascertain at the meeting, missing repayments totaling a value of € 282,806.75, calling into question the school’s activity. The parliamentary group of PCP intervened on the matter, demanding urgent government action to address this and other problems.
Only the organization of students and their struggle can tackle barriers to decent Vocational Education. In Porto, as elsewhere in the country.

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Professional School of Tondela

The School of Professional Tondela, as in other professional schools of our country, we are witnessing the degradation of the material and human conditions, as a result of funding cuts practiced over the years by the governments of the PS, PSD and CDS.

 

Students are faced with the false idea of ​​receiving money to study, as a result of subsidies that should receive, but in fact, in addition to some being late (as exemplified by the materials exchange) the expenses that students will have throughout the year, they have revealed that study is not available to anyone, but who can. In Restoration Course, for example, the training allowance only reaches students at the end of stage (on average 100 euros) and must be such as to ensure the cost of travel, meals and even some materials throughout the stage, have to pay 10 euros for the uniform, and the shoes needed for the lessons are at least 35 euros. Before a regime of hard faults, which when exceeded requires students to pay 20 euros in order to reset the module.

 

About the material conditions in School Tondela Professional, the gym has small dimensions, taking into account the number of classes that use the simultaneous space and the changing rooms are too small so that students can equip the same time, and sometimes lacking hot water to shower after class. Also the canteen has a small size for the amount of school students. Lack computers with necessary conditions for undergraduate students of Technical Information and Management and lack a bar in the school affordable for all students!

 

The Portuguese Communist Youth advocates a vocational education that is worthy, public, free and quality, in which the integral formation of students should be the priority, as well as enhance the county or district where the students, and not be the serving the interests of regional economic groups, who take advantage of this subsystem by the fact that more and more students are pushed into vocational courses because they have economic and financial conditions to join the college. Courses may not be used to make hand-work more easily exploitable, serving the logic of increased profits of the business groups.

 

JCP appeals to students of vocational education that schools and intensify streets their fight for the right to study at public and free professional education they are entitled to, the strengthening of funding from the state and the dignity of this education system.

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Curricular changes in Medical harm students!

With the new academic year, the Faculty of Medicine opened a new curriculum that takes rights to students while they impinge teaching duties.

 

In certain chairs one 6th grader starts to receive in their teaching periods a student of the 2nd year (in some cases even more), which have to teach medical practice skills without any payment or preparation, and on a mandatory basis, with weight in the final evaluation stage. This “newness” is part of the PAAP – Assisted Learning Program Peer.

 

Esta realidade demonstra a falta de condições pedagógicas e ao mesmo tempo dos Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, que, a rebentar pelas costuras com estudantes e internos, ficam agora mais sobrelotados, criando um ambiente desconfortável para os pacientes e dificultando o trabalho das enfermarias. O PAAP só foi dado a conhecer aos alunos no imediato, recusando-se a faculdade a informar alunos de outros anos, que futuramente vão estar implicados, até ao final do ano lectivo.

 

 

Bolseiros em Coimbra obrigados a cobrar propinas!

 

Outra das novidades é a bolsa em Gestão de Ciência e Tecnologia criada pela Universidade de Coimbra. O objectivo é que sejam os bolseiros a cobrar propinas e taxas em dívida, enquanto se vêem sem contrato de trabalho, sem direito a subsídio de desemprego, de férias ou 13.º mês, sem acesso a uma Segurança Social justa e sem direito a fazer greve. Nesta situação precária, os bolseiros ficam também numa posição de porta-voz da UC no que toca a afastar cada vez mais estudantes do Ensino Superior, usando a propina como barreira de acesso e frequência.