School dropout monitoring implies more costs, says ministry

Response to the audit of the Court of Auditors

The Ministry of Education defended, this Wednesday, that a more detailed monitoring of school dropout has implications for the costs, data protection and competences of the Autonomous Regions, in reaction to the findings of the Court of Auditors.

“A more detailed monitoring of early school leaving, as suggested by the report of the Court of Auditors, in addition to the high costs it entails, must always respect the limits of competence of the Autonomous Regions, enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic, as well as the requirements for protection of data that apply to the crossing of information about citizens collected by different institutions, some of them external to the Ministry of Education ”, can be read in the statement.

The Ministry of Education also underlined that Portugal recorded the most significant reduction in school dropout in Europe and that the “Early Education and Training Abandonment indicator has been consolidated in the European Union (EU) since 1999, being used by official bodies responsible for statistics of each member state, in the Portuguese case, the National Statistics Institute ”.

 

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