Calls grow ‘to flunk’ Portugal’s education minister amid exam marking fiasco
Summary
Portugal’s education minister, Fernando Alexandre, faces growing calls to resign after major problems with this year’s national school exams. The government introduced a fully digital system for grading exams, but many students, teachers, and parents say it caused serious errors and confusion, leading to protests and demands to cancel the results.Key Facts
- Portugal tried to modernize and digitize exam grading for over 260,000 students aged 14 to 18.
- The digital system caused many problems, including missing or mixed-up exam pages and technical access issues.
- Teachers reported difficulties grading because some exams were incomplete or scanned badly.
- Thousands of students saw their grades differ greatly from predicted scores, and some grades were missing.
- About 19,000 people signed a petition asking to cancel all this year’s exam results.
- An education watchdog said 26,000 exams were affected by technical errors, and 18,000 grades were being corrected.
- Alexandre blamed staff for causing problems and dismissed complaints as false or minor.
- The controversy has led to protests by students and teachers demanding the minister’s resignation.
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