Costa wants to transform country’s economic profile
Costa was speaking at the presentation session of new investment projects by Deloitte Portugal in Lisbon, including two new global technology solutions centres that may employ up to 2,000 people.
Portugal’s prime minister said on Wednesday it was essential that Portugal had persistence and discipline in the coming years in implementing policies to transform the profile of its economy, warning that economic competitiveness and wages do not increase with magic wands.
António Costa was speaking at the presentation session of new investment projects by Deloitte Portugal in Lisbon, including two new global technology solutions centres that may employ up to 2,000 people in the next four years.
After the chief executive of Deloitte Portugal, António Lagartixo made a speech in which he identified as a decisive factor the existence of an education system in Portugal characterised by demand and rigour, the prime minister said that the country’s goal “is to increase training in sciences, technologies, arts and mathematics” by 2026.
A goal that “implies training 10,000 more people than currently in these areas”.
These transformations, stressed António Costa, require “persistence and not hesitation”.
“If in 20 years Portugal managed to quadruple the number of students in Higher Education, it is because for 40 years we managed to turn a passion into something that has materialised, from pre-school to higher education. This capacity to increasingly widen inclusion and integration in education and to increasingly have higher quality education gives meaning to the demand that we need to have to have highly qualified staff,” he stated afterwards.
