Os cursos de educação e formação como uma resposta ao insucesso e abandono escolar: estudo realizado na região Douro Sul

Educational and Training Courses as a response to Academic Failure and Dropout: Study conducted in the Southern Douro Region. The Educational and Training Courses (CEF) emerged as a way to combat academic failure and school dropout, by offering young people academic and training choices that make it easier for them to follow career paths more in line with their interests and expectations, thus allowing them to complete their mandatory education. This study was performed in 14 schools in the 10 municipalities belonging to the Southern Douro Region, in which 235 teachers and 544 students were interviewed. The results obtained allowed us to conclude that the CEF are a real response to combat academic failure and dropout in this region, since in a population of 601 students registered in the academic year 2008/2009 and of the 544 students interviewed, 260 (47.79%) responded that if they had not attended a CEF, they would have already dropped out of school and 503 (92.50%) stated that their grades improved after attending a CEF.