Portugal opened public consultation on a proposed revision of the inclusive education legal regime. The proposal keeps the 2018 inclusive education model but seeks to clarify procedures, strengthen support coordination, and improve transitions for students.
Nigeria announced plans to phase out the separate administration of Junior Secondary School and Senior Secondary School. The proposal is tied to a planned shift toward a continuous 12-year basic education structure and is expected to require further approval and implementation steps.
BTEB began a show-cause process for SSC Vocational and Dakhil Vocational institutions that did not register any new regular students in the 2025 or 2026 academic years. The process may lead to withdrawal or cancellation of teaching approval and suspension of admission from the 2026-2027 academic year.
MEC Portaria nº 570/2026 created a working group to prepare a proposal for a Digital and Media Competency Matrix in basic education. The change starts a formal drafting process rather than imposing a final curriculum rule.
The education and culture ministries opened a public participation process to formulate the policy that will develop Law 2555 of 2025, known as Artes al Aula. The process uses a microsite and regional meetings in six territories to collect input for the policy document.
Portugal’s Council of Ministers approved in general, for hearings, a decree-law proposal reorganizing official statistics. The proposal would move production and dissemination of official statistics on education, training, learning, science, technology, and innovation into Statistics Portugal.
Portugal ordered an inspection audit into internal procedures used in preparing the national secondary Portuguese exam held on 16 June. The audit was requested after a question image in the exam was found to have appeared previously in a published exercise book.
MŠMT placed a draft amendment to the School Act into interministerial review to change how teaching assistant support is allocated and organized in basic schools. The proposal aims to make support less dependent on individual recommendations and more tied to school and pupil needs.
SEP announced a school-by-school and teacher-by-teacher consultation route to prepare an initiative to replace Usicamm. No replacement law or final teacher career rule was approved in June 2026.
The Senate considered the Student Rights and Duties Bill without amendments and sent it to the President. The bill would move the catalog of student rights and duties to statutory level and create new protection roles.