Luís Catela Nunes is a professor at Nova SBE and investigates the impact of school retentions on a student's academic life.

"If a student had not been detained, what would have happened? Would he be better or worse?” These are the fundamental questions of the research published in the report from Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, which studied students from Portuguese public schools attending the fourth year. The report was published together with two other co-authors, Carmo Seabra and Ana Balcão Reis, both professors at Nova SBE. 

You can hear the full program here:

http://www.90segundosdeciencia.pt/episodes/ep-140-luis-nunes/