National survey reveals ethnic-racial inequalities in education, labour status, housing and experience of discrimination in Portugal

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A new survey by the National Statistics Institute (INE) reveals ethnic-racial inequalities in education, labour status, housing, and experience of discrimination in Portugal. According to the Survey on the Life Conditions, Origins and Trajectories of the Resident Population – ICOT (INE, 2023), the adult population in Portugal who identifies as Roma or black suffers around…

PISA 2022 Results, “The State of Learning and Equity in Education (vol. I)” and “Learning During – and from – Disruption (vol. II)”, by OCDE

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Review by Adriana Albuquerque   OECD (2023). PISA 2022 Results (Volume I) – The State of Learning and Equity in Education. Paris, OECD Publishing. OECD (2023). PISA 2022 Results (Volume II) – Learning During – and From – Disruption. Paris, OECD Publishing.   The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triannual survey to…

[Call for papers] 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association

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Manchester, UK, 20-23 August 2019 | Abstract submission deadline: 1st February 2019 RS11 – ‘Questioning Precariousness: Labour, Collective Organising and Everyday Life’ Precariousness has a complex and multidimensional connotation and has been measured mainly by referring to the extent to which non-standard work arrangements impact on the stability of employment and the availability of workers’ rights. By…

Girls in primary school age are still disadvantaged whereas the inverse situation for boys is observed in secondary school

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UNESCO launched in 2012 the report “Gender Parity Index (GPI)”. Updated information for 2016 is already available in the “eAtlas of Gender Equality and Education”, which shows data for all levels of education disaggregated by sex across time, the information presented is collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) with partnership of the OECD…

Research on Inequality and Migration under Threat

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It is difficult to understand, and completely unacceptable, that academic research centres get downgraded due to their focus on inequality and migration. Yet, this is about to happen in the evaluation that FCT, the agency responsible for science funding in Portugal is conducting on all the country’s research centres. FCT commissioned this evaluation to the…