Case consequences Relvas: Lusophone must undo 152 … – Express

The Ministry of Education gives just a few more days to the University Lusophone to correct once the academic processes of 152 students who studied there between 2006 and 2013 and remove the respective certificates and diplomas were awarded based on irregular allocation of credits for alleged previous professional backgrounds and experiences.

The order was made known on Wednesday by the Ministry of Education, which, in a clarification given to Express , said to have informed the Lusophone University on 24 March, which has 15 days to “full compliance with the order of December 16, 2014, in the segment relating to invalid acts of crediting”.
that order determined that the university had to “declare, in 152 cases, the nullity of the acts of crediting and provide for forfeiture of diplomas and certificates that have been awarded, subject to be reported the invalidity of such acts to the Ministry public. “

Notice of protection does not stop by to the Public Ministry, as has happened in the case of former Minister Miguel Relvas, licensed at that university, after making only four chairs – the other equivalents received by professional experience – and a review of them raising questions Crato and the public prosecutor. The Ministry also says that in the case of the Lusophone not meet the short-term recommendations, the institution may lose the recognition of public interest, or permit to operate.

Sheriffs “particularly serious”
So far, the university reported that those responsible “have been declared void or are in the process of knowing that invalidity 75 academic processes” and that for the remaining awaits clarification of some doubts.

The beginning of this process dates back to 2012, when questions arose about how the Parliamentary Affairs former minister had a degree in Political Science in just one school year and the achievement of four chairs. Nuno Crato turned out to have the General Inspection of Education to university to verify in particular the way they were being given equivalence by professional experience or other previous.

The inspection turned out to analyze 425 crediting processes and found that 152 were irregular – here include the degree of Relvas, who earned an investigation triggered just then. “In some of the acts of crediting were identified particularly serious illegalities, which result in the invalidity of such acts.”

In the case of the former Minister Passos Coelho, who finally resigned, the inspection found that the degree of Relvas had to be annulled, since one of the chairs would have been made on the fringe review of regulations of the university itself. Instead of a written examination, the former ruler underwent only an oral discussion of seven articles of the author. And so would miss credits to be able to assign one degree, as happened in 2007.

Nuno Crato sent the case to the public prosecutor and this, it asked the nullity of the diploma. The process is being analyzed in the Lisbon Administrative Court. ?