Pedro Freitas, from the Nova SBE Economics of Education Knowledge Center, participated in the Podcast Explicador from Rádio Observador.

Pedro discussed the lack of teachers in the national education system based on the latest Nova SBE Economics of Education Knowledge Center’s study. “What the study comes to show is that we have essentially two forces in the system: we have an evolution in the number of students that will face a fall during the next ten years, …, and on the other hand we have a class of teachers with a very advanced age and of which around 40% will retire in the same period.” According to this study, this gap leads to the need of hiring more than 34,000 teachers in the next ten years.