Higher education with cutting 4% - Público.pt

state spending with Science and Higher Education will have a cut slightly above 4% next year, a value much higher than the 1.5% announced after the meetings held between the authority and responsibility of the sector during the summer . reductions in staff and contributions ADSE represent one of the most important slices of the reduction provided for in the State Budget (OE) for 2014, to which are attached a savings of 53 million euros with the changes directly in the sector.

The caption on the Higher Education and Social Action is a reduction of 80.5 million euros compared to last year, standing at 982.3 million euros. This change corresponds to a decrease of 7.6%, but the other changes proposed by the budget set allow cutting spending to the sector at 4.1%. The number is still substantially higher than what had been advanced during the summer

After the presentation of the proposed OE by the Ministry of Education and Science to industry partners, had been made public that the proposal for 2014 foresaw an overall cut of 1.5%, which would rise to about 3% after subject to the new rules of the contributions of higher education institutions for the CGA.

According to the report published in the early evening of Tuesday, OE 2014 designed 2200 million for Science and Higher Education next year. Sectoral measures allow the state to spend less 53 million to the sector, which, according to the government, these will be obtained “through the optimization of the investment budget in education

Superior, the concentration of the training offer and better coordination of the network of institutions. ” Other measures recommended are the use of Community financing and the renegotiation of shares in connection with participation in international organizations.

retrenchment planned originates mainly in the sub-autonomous funds and services, providing a saving of 27.3 million by the transverse measurements to document, especially the termination by mutual agreement, the retirements of staff frame and the decrease of the contribution of MEC to ADSE.