Foreign students of Portuguese language, such as Guineans, St.-Tome or Cape Verdeans, are the ones who have the most difficulty completing the 9th grade without able-as opposed to the Chinese that exceed all expectations.
Data released this Thursday at Portal Infoescolas, which presents a set of information about the percentage of students who can complete the 3rd cycle in the expected three years, revealed that the students coming from China and Ukraine do better than those in Lusophone countries.
In a comparison between nine foreign nationalities, students from Lusophone countries appear as those who have the most difficulties, with only 70% of Brazilian and Angolan children being able to finish the 9th grade without able.
But the more serious cases are among the children of Guinea-Bissauwith a success rate of only 61%, or the Vedian cables (58%) and the São Tomenses (57%), according to data related to the school year of 2022/2023.
“Academic Portuguese” confuses
In an interview with, Inês TavaresResearcher at the Inequalities Observatory of the Center for Research and Studies of Sociology (CIES) of ISCTE explains that, in the case of students from African countries of Portuguese Official Language (Palop), “Despite speaking Portuguese, they have a Portuguese that is different from academic Portuguese” that is required at school.
In addition to the confusion that Portuguese taught in schools can generate, Inês Tavares points out that, in several cases, students from these countries are seen differently by school and teachers: “The integration they have or not have, the social conditions of the students themselves. All of this is decisive. ”
Chinese impress
Already The Chinese approach the national percentagesstanding out for the positive: Overall, 89% of school students in Portugal ended the 9th grade without slooping, only three percentage points above the average of Chinese students (86%).
Chinese are the only ones with academic results above expectedaccording to data from the Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics (DGEEC), who managed to compare the results of these children with all those with a similar profile at national level, ie with other children who present, for example, The same percentage of needy students or parents with the same level of education.
Ukrainians, French and Romanians also stand out
Also students Ukrainians appear in the data released today as being very close to expected, with 81% of the children to complete the 9th grade without able, followed by the French (80%) and the Romanians (71%).
In secondary education, paddles are also much higher than national averages, with half of Brazilians (50%) and Angolans (54%) to have at least one retention, which is almost double the value recorded between Chinese (26%).
Socioeconomic status counts a lot
The report points out that the socioeconomic status continues to have a strong impact on the results, especially mathematics, with the Students from poorer families (with level of school social support) to have much lower notes than children who are not beneficiaries.
Successful cases have increased, but there are much more cases among young people from more favored families, according to the indicator of the “direct routes of success”, which shows the percentage of students who have a path without retention throughout the 3rd cycle and obtain positive in the final events of the 9th grade.
The national level, in the school year of 2021/22, one in three students (34%) managed to make the route without retaining and, the following year, the percentage rose to 36%, being Easier to find success cases among students from schools of Coimbra, Braga, Viseu and Viana do Casteloall districts with percentages greater than 41%.
By opposition, the southernmost districts, mainly Portalegre and Bejawere the ones who had smaller proportion of students with direct routes of success (26 and 25%, respectively), says the report.
Comparing students from more needy and privileged families, they notice “Very accentuated differences”: If 41% of non -beneficiary students have been able to make a successful course, the percentage goes down to 24% for B -level beneficiaries and 13% for students in level A.
