Month: June 2015

Institute of Public Policy releases here its third Policy Paper: Returns to vocational education in Portugal, by Sofia Oliveira. With this paper we resume a theme Institute of Public Policy  had touched upon in one of its first initiatives: the public policy of education. In this paper Sofia Oliveira contributes to the debate surrounding the expansion of job-oriented tracks in the Portuguese education system. Results show a wage advantage for workers with vocational education in the beginning of the career, but what are its long-term impacts? How does it affect the ability of the economy to adapt to a context of increasing innovation? This…

It was launched on June 26, 2015, through Almedina, the first edition of our Areté Collection. Intergenerational justice, an important work of Axel Gosseries, for the first time fully translated into Portuguese, is prefaced by Jorge Sampaio (Former President of the Portuguese Republic).“… a leitura deste ensaio, pontuada de dificuldades, é certo, quer pela densidade do arrazoado, quer pelo tipo de abordagem subjacente, foi para mim uma interessante descoberta – descoberta, antes de mais, de que a filosofia pode “descer à terra” e centrar-se em questões concretas, singulares e materiais que afectam o nosso quotidiano. De facto, neste ensaio intitulado Pensar a…