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- Perspetivas sobre o ensino politécnico: contextos sociais, motivações de acesso e competências emocionaisPublication . Sousa, Luis Nuno Figueiredo e; Cardoso, Ana Paula; Santos, Maria João; Campos, Sofia; Paiva, Teresa
- Entrepreneurial assessment and transition to work: perspectives of Politechnic educations finalistsPublication . Sousa, Luis Nuno Figueiredo e; Paiva, TeresaThe creation of polytechnic education in Portugal is positioned to respond to the labour market expectations in terms of human resources. From a developmental perspective, it intends to reinforce equality in access to higher education, adapts the contents and practices to different population groups, and encourage continuous training and recurrent education. Entrepreneurship Education is today a polytechnic goal that covers this higher education institution national network, which has a recognised methodology for entrepreneurship teaching and learning education, shared in terms of methods, contents and coordination. It reaches a wide range of students in different areas of specialisation to develop their skills and abilities, create their own business, or register new patents. The analysis presented is the result of a study carried out on the training paths of students at the Polytechnics of Guarda, Leiria and Viseu. As self-employment is one of the mechanisms that promote the transition to the labour market, it was intended to observe the extent to which it is referred to as an option for accessing higher education. At the same time, it was envisioned to verify how entrepreneurial skills were learned and perceived by the finalists during their academic careers, bearing in mind the assessment made to the courses attended.
- Entrepreneurship education paradoxesPublication . Sousa, Luis Nuno Figueiredo e; Paiva, TeresaEntrepreneurship education is commonly recognised as an imperative of higher education. It is seen as a transversal competence essential to be developed in all levels of education. It is a crucial competence to be integrated into the different subjects and scientific areas. Additionally, entrepreneurship is one of the possible ways of accessing the labour market, as can be seen in community directives and national policies. In practical terms, this issue poses new and important challenges to Higher Education Institutions, related to their capacity, together with other actors (economic, social, political, among others), to develop an entrepreneurial spirit and entrepreneurial culture and innovation. The academic context is an essential part of the student environment and, as such, is centrally placed to change and encourage entrepreneurship. Today, higher education institutions represent a significant factor in the transition to work by their graduates. Polytechnic education has a recognised methodology for teaching entrepreneurship and a closer relation with the business market. In consequence, we analysed the student training paths in higher polytechnic education. We focused on the Polytechnics of Guarda, Leiria and Viseu finalists, with the behavioural tendency of other studies identified from the Polytechnics network promoting entrepreneurship. In this way, it was possible to pinpoint some territorial specificities that national studies do not present and a better redefinition of priorities identified by students about institutional processes and programs to support the promotion of employment entrepreneurship. Also, an education paradox regarding the entrepreneurial education goals of HEI was possible to be acknowledged since students claimed for a more practical and entrepreneurial type of learning. It was possible to draw some considerations on the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and the entrepreneurship abilities of teachers and institutions.
- Work risks in pandemic timesPublication . Sousa, Luis Nuno Figueiredo e; Paiva, TeresaThe difficulties in finding regular and stable employment and the resulting social consequences have reached worrying dimensions in recent years. The growing demand for education and the hierarchy and regulation of employment continue to show increasingly obvious difficulties in absorbing a growing skilled workforce. In this context, the emergence of the covid-19 pandemic has brought new challenges worldwide: the establishment of telework and the intense decline in economic activity were some of the most evident cross-cutting changes, with direct consequences for the emergence of new forms and policies to support the employment. In this context, we try, here, to reflect how young graduates of polytechnic higher education in Portugal project the future employment risks, particularly in terms of unemployment, new forms and conditions of the exercise of work, adaptations and changes in terms of content, contracts and timetables, keeping in mind their gender, age, academic training areas. This knowledge is crucial to the content and pedagogies adaption in academia to help develop the needed competences of the future work labour force. It will also be possible to observe how the entrepreneurial skills or the entrepreneurship path is in their future.