An approach to the analysis of the high-school teaching system in Portugal - II. Regional inequalities

Abstract

In the nº. 48 of Análise Social one published the first part of the present study,in which one tried to analyse the composition of the schooled population in the Portuguese official daily secondary teaching in 1974-1975, according to the official statistical data then available. Now one publishes the second part, in which one finishes the analysis of the secondary teaching system in Portugal by means of, at the district level, the regional inequalities which characterize it. Composition per sexes, composition per teaching branches (high-school and tecnical school), composition per sexes and teaching branches and even the distribution of schooled population in general courses and complementary courses are brought into focus. It is underlined that the last one is an important element for the analysis of the school situation in the secondary teaching, since the proportion to the participation of the complementary courses in the composition of schooled population may be an indirect indicator for the different «natures» of the schooling ways in high-school teaching (more characterized long teaching) and in technical teaching (short teaching) and, inside each one of these teaching branches, of the different forms of schooling to which boys and girls submitted.