National Qualifications System (SNQ)
The QNQ was established in compliance with the European Qualifications Framework, and its goal is to promote the ‘raising the basic training of the working population through education and professional progression”.
National Qualifications System (SNQ)
- Decreto-Lei (Decree-law) nº 14/2017 de 26 de janeiro, modifies Decreto-Lei (Decree-Law) n.º 396/2007 de 31 de dezembro, sets the legal framework, the governing structures and tools that ensure its functioning.
- Decreto-Lei (Decree-Law) n.º 396/2007 de 31 de dezembro, establishes the SNQ.
- Resolução do Conselho de Ministros (Resolution of the Council of Ministers) n.º 173/2007, de 7 de novembro – approves a set measures for the reform of vocational training, agreed with most of the social partners on the Standing Committee for Social Dialogue.
SNQ's supporting instruments
- Portaria (Ordinance), n.º 47/2017, de 1 de fevereiro – regulates the National Credit System of VET and defines the model of the Passaporte Qualifica
- Portaria (Ordinance) n.º 782/2009, de 23 de julho – regulates the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) and defines the descriptors of the national qualification levels
- Portaria (Ordinance) n.º 781/2009, de 23 de julho – establishes the structure and organisation of the Catálogo Nacional de Qualificações (CNQ)
- Despacho (Order) n.º 13456/2008, de 14 de maio – approves the initial version of the CNQ
- Portaria (Ordinance) n.º 851/2010, de 6 de setembro – regulates the certification system of training providers foreseen by the Decreto-Lei (Decree-Law) n.º 396/2007, de 31 de dezembro
VET offer
- Portaria (Ordinance) n.º 235-A/2018, de 23 de agosto – regulates the professional programmes.
- Portaria (Ordinance) n.º 232-A/2018, de 20 de agosto – regulates the specialised artistic programmes of communication design, product design, artistic production and audiovisual communication.
- Portaria (Ordinance) n.º 229-A/2018, de 14 de agosto – proceeds to the regulation of the specialised artistic programmes of dance, music, singing and gregorian chant
- Portaria (Oridnance) n.º 223-A/2018, de 3 de agosto – regulates the primary and secondary education offer
- Decreto-Lei (Decree-Law) n.º 55/2018, de 6 de julho – establishes the curriculum from primary to upper secondary education and the guiding principles of learning assessment.
VET offer related legislation
- Despacho (Order) n.º 6944-A/2018, de 19 de julho – homologates the essential learning from primary to lower secondary education.
- Despacho (Order) n.º 6478/2017, de 26 de julho – homologates the students profile at the end of compulsory education.
- Despacho (Order) n.º 5908/2017, de 5 de julho – authorises, under a system of pedagogical experience, the implementation of the project of autonomy and curricular flexibility for primary and secondary education in the academic year 2017/18.