Vacancies in universities for children of emigrants

The government expects to fill the 3,500 places available at Portuguese universities for children of emigrants in two or three years. According to Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities Berta Nunes, only 416 were filled in the last academic year, reports The Portugal News.

Higher education has a contingent reserved for children of emigrants of 7% of the total national vacancies, which corresponds to about 3,500 vacancies. The number of candidates has been growing since 2013, the year in which there was the smallest number ever with only 99 applications. In the academic year 2019-20, 483 emigrants and Portuguese descendants applied, with 416 being placed, which represents 86%.

“We hope that there will be more and more members and that within two to three years the total number of vacancies will be filled, which is very interesting for our younger people living abroad,” said Nunes to Lusa News Agency. The official said that the information and awareness campaign for this possibility, which started last year, will be reinforced, namely through advertising in the Portuguese social media.
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