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Reuse of manuals is civilizational duty comparable to recycling
16/07/2019

Reuse of manuals is civilizational duty comparable to recycling


The Secretary of State for Education, João Costa, believes that the reuse of textbooks is a civilizational duty. "It's like separating the trash and recycling." In the next school year, manuals will be free from 1st to 12th year.

The position comes shortly after a survey by the Court of Auditors concluded that schools only took 3.9% of school textbooks in the 2018/2019 school year, for a total of 107,000. In the first cycle, the percentage of vouchers issued did not exceed 11% and in the second cycle was 0.4%. "However, there is no information on how many have actually been rescued, so it is not known how many reused manuals are in use," said the Court of Auditors.

In the 2018/2019 school year, the Ministry of Education distributed textbooks to about 500 thousand students by the 6th year through a computerized platform that assigned vouchers to people who could choose where they wanted to pick up the books.

And for the 2019/2020 school year?
Already for the school year that starts in September, the purpose of the tutela is to extend the distribution of manuals until the 12th year, which should cost the State Budget more than 160 million euros, according to figures released by Tiago Brandão Rodrigues to Parliament.

As the Education Minister pointed out last November, enlargement is "the fulfillment of a republican obligation towards all its citizens", representing for many citizens to have "an expense often equivalent to one of their monthly salaries." "We ensure that everyone starts the school year on the same terms as the other colleague on the side and not to the extent that the monthly financial balance of family expenses allows," he said.

Source: Eco

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