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junior secondary education

  • 1 junior secondary education

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > junior secondary education

  • 2 Education

       In Portugal's early history, education was firmly under the control of the Catholic Church. The earliest schools were located in cathedrals and monasteries and taught a small number of individuals destined for ecclesiastical office. In 1290, a university was established by King Dinis (1261-1325) in Lisbon, but was moved to Coimbra in 1308, where it remained. Coimbra University, Portugal's oldest, and once its most prestigious, was the educational cradle of Portugal's leadership. From 1555 until the 18th century, primary and secondary education was provided by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). The Catholic Church's educational monopoly was broken when the Marquis of Pombal expelled the Jesuits in 1759 and created the basis for Portugal's present system of public, secular primary and secondary schools. Pombal introduced vocational training, created hundreds of teaching posts, added departments of mathematics and natural sciences at Coimbra University, and established an education tax to pay for them.
       During the 19th century, liberals attempted to reform Portugal's educational system, which was highly elitist and emphasized rote memorization and respect for authority, hierarchy, and discipline.
       Reforms initiated in 1822, 1835, and 1844 were never actualized, however, and education remained unchanged until the early 20th century. After the overthrow of the monarchy on the Fifth of October 1910 by Republican military officers, efforts to reform Portugal's educational system were renewed. New universities were founded in Lisbon and Oporto, a Ministry of Education was established, and efforts were made to increase literacy (illiteracy rates being 80 percent) and to resecularize educational content by introducing more scientific and empirical methods into the curriculum.
       Such efforts were ended during the military dictatorship (192632), which governed Portugal until the establishment of the Estado Novo (1926-74). Although a new technical university was founded in Lisbon in 1930, little was done during the Estado Novo to modernize education or to reduce illiteracy. Only in 1964 was compulsory primary education made available for children between the ages of 6 and 12.
       The Revolution of 25 April 1974 disrupted Portugal's educational system. For a period of time after the Revolution, students, faculty, and administrators became highly politicized as socialists, communists, and other groups attempted to gain control of the schools. During the 1980s, as Portuguese politics moderated, the educational system was gradually depoliticized, greater emphasis was placed on learning, and efforts were made to improve the quality of Portuguese schools.
       Primary education in Portugal consists of four years in the primary (first) cycle and two years in the preparatory, or second, cycle. The preparatory cycle is intended for children going on to secondary education. Secondary education is roughly equivalent to junior and senior high schools in the United States. It consists of three years of a common curriculum and two years of complementary courses (10th and 11th grades). A final year (12th grade) prepares students to take university entrance examinations.
       Vocational education was introduced in 1983. It consists of a three-year course in a particular skill after the 11th grade of secondary school.
       Higher education is provided by the four older universities (Lisbon, Coimbra, Oporto, and the Technical University of Lisbon), as well as by six newer universities, one in Lisbon and the others in Minho, Aveiro, Évora, the Algarve, and the Azores. There is also a private Catholic university in Lisbon. Admission to Portuguese universities is highly competitive, and places are limited. About 10 percent of secondary students go on to university education. The average length of study at the university is five years, after which students receive their licentiate. The professoriate has four ranks (professors, associate professors, lecturers, and assistants). Professors have tenure, while the other ranks teach on contract.
       As Portugal is a unitary state, the educational system is highly centralized. All public primary and secondary schools, universities, and educational institutes are under the purview of the Ministry of Education, and all teachers and professors are included in the civil service and receive pay and pension like other civil servants. The Ministry of Education hires teachers, determines curriculum, sets policy, and pays for the building and upkeep of schools. Local communities have little say in educational matters.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Education

  • 3 secondary

    1. n подчинённый
    2. n представитель, действующий по поручению
    3. n сановник второго ранга
    4. n эл. вторичная обмотка

    secondary emission — вторичная эмиссия; вторичное излучение

    5. n физ. вторичная частица; вторичный электрон
    6. a второй
    7. a средний
    8. a второстепенный

    a very secondary matter — второстепенный вопрос; дело, не представляющее важности

    9. a вторичный; производный
    10. a побочный, неглавный; второстепенный
    11. a дополнительный, добавочный
    12. a вспомогательный, подсобный
    13. a геол. мезозойский
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. alternate (adj.) alternate; auxiliary; subsidiary
    2. indirect (adj.) consequent; derivate; derivational; derivative; derived; following; indirect; proximate; resultant; subsequent
    3. small (adj.) dinky; insignificant; lesser; low; minor; minor-league; small; small-fry; small-time
    4. subordinate (adj.) ancillary; collateral; dependent; inferior; lower; petty; second; sub; subject; subordinate; subservient; tributary; under
    5. inferior (noun) inferior; junior; poor relation; scrub; subaltern; subordinate; underling; understrapper
    Антонимический ряд:
    major; preceding; primary

    English-Russian base dictionary > secondary

  • 4 неполное среднее образование

    4) Education: incomplete secondary education (Muckle J, Education in Russia: Past and Present, Nottingham, 1993)

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > неполное среднее образование

  • 5 secundario

    adj.
    1 secondary, ancillary, knock-on.
    2 secondary, low-voltage.
    * * *
    1 secondary
    1 GEOLOGÍA secondary
    ————————
    1 GEOLOGÍA secondary
    * * *
    (f. - secundaria)
    adj.
    * * *
    secundario, -a
    1.
    ADJ (=no principal) [gen] secondary; [carretera, efectos] side antes de s ; (Inform) background antes de s
    educación 1)
    2.
    * * *
    - ria adjetivo <factor/problema> secondary
    * * *
    = ancillary, marginal, minor, peripheral, secondary, side, subsidiary, tangential, accessory, fringe, fringe subject, derivative.
    Ex. A number of ancillary factors about the development of knowledge can be examined such as the extent of self-citation and the evolution of concepts.
    Ex. The title 'Unsolicited marginal gift collections: saying no or coping with the unwanted' deals with the problem of how to cope with collections which should have been declined, but were not.
    Ex. A study of bibliographic classification could concentrate solely upon the major, and some of the more minor bibliographic classification schemes used today.
    Ex. The example below demonstrates how to reject those documents that are likely to be of only peripheral interest.
    Ex. In general title entries are regarded as secondary to author entries.
    Ex. The course had concentrated on executive decision making, with a side excursion into the study and findings of Henry Mintzberg as reported in his book, 'The Nature of Managerial Work'.
    Ex. Added entries are only made under important subsidiary headings and not under every possible alternative heading.
    Ex. My second point may be a slightly tangential, but I hope it is a concrete reaction to the general tenor of Mr. Lubetzky's remarks and the general subject posed.
    Ex. The Publications Office may fairly be said to present itself to the outside-world as a distributor by way of sale, since its overt involvement in free distribution is essentially accessory to that.
    Ex. Libraries must also attempt to draw in the public by promoting fringe activities such as art exhibitions, concerts, talks by writers, craft demonstrations and films.
    Ex. In a general classification there are, of course, no fringe subjects: all are of equal weight, and must be given their due place in the overall order.
    Ex. The author gives an overview of derivative information sources.
    ----
    * actividad secundaria = sidelight activity.
    * actor secundario = secondary role.
    * almacenamiento secundario = secondary storage.
    * añadir como algo secundario = tack on.
    * asiento secundario = secondary entry.
    * asiento secundario por autor y título = author-title added entry, name-title added entry.
    * asiento secundario por título = title added entry.
    * atención secundaria = secondary care.
    * autor secundario = secondary author.
    * bibliografía secundaria = secondary literature.
    * carretera secundaria = minor road, back road.
    * color secundario = secondary colour.
    * concepto secundario = secondary concept, subsidiary concept.
    * descriptor secundario = minor descriptor.
    * desempeñar un papel secundario = play + second fiddle.
    * documento secundario = secondary document, secondary publication.
    * educación secundaria = secondary education.
    * efecto secundario = side effect [side-effect], spillover effect, after effect [after-effect].
    * efectos secundarios = knock-on effect.
    * encabezamiento secundario = added entry heading.
    * enseñanza secundaria = secondary education.
    * escuela de primer ciclo de secundaria = intermediate school.
    * escuela secundaria = junior school, middle school, upper school.
    * estudiante que ha completado los estudios secundarios = high school graduate.
    * fuente secundaria = secondary source.
    * hallazgo secundario = incidental finding.
    * idea secundaria = side issue.
    * incluir como registro de encabezamiento secundario = trace.
    * información secundaria = secondary information.
    * papel secundario = secondary role.
    * perderse por los caminos secundarios = go + off-road.
    * personaje secundario = secondary character.
    * producto secundario = by-product [byproduct].
    * puntos secundarios = secondary points.
    * registro de encabezamiento secundario de materia = subject tracing.
    * registro de encabezamientos secundarios = tracing.
    * responsabilidad secundaria = secondary responsibility.
    * servicios de documentos secundarios = secondary services.
    * tema de secundaria importancia = footnote.
    * término secundario = qualifying term.
    * tomar un papel secundario = take + a back seat.
    * * *
    - ria adjetivo <factor/problema> secondary
    * * *
    = ancillary, marginal, minor, peripheral, secondary, side, subsidiary, tangential, accessory, fringe, fringe subject, derivative.

    Ex: A number of ancillary factors about the development of knowledge can be examined such as the extent of self-citation and the evolution of concepts.

    Ex: The title 'Unsolicited marginal gift collections: saying no or coping with the unwanted' deals with the problem of how to cope with collections which should have been declined, but were not.
    Ex: A study of bibliographic classification could concentrate solely upon the major, and some of the more minor bibliographic classification schemes used today.
    Ex: The example below demonstrates how to reject those documents that are likely to be of only peripheral interest.
    Ex: In general title entries are regarded as secondary to author entries.
    Ex: The course had concentrated on executive decision making, with a side excursion into the study and findings of Henry Mintzberg as reported in his book, 'The Nature of Managerial Work'.
    Ex: Added entries are only made under important subsidiary headings and not under every possible alternative heading.
    Ex: My second point may be a slightly tangential, but I hope it is a concrete reaction to the general tenor of Mr. Lubetzky's remarks and the general subject posed.
    Ex: The Publications Office may fairly be said to present itself to the outside-world as a distributor by way of sale, since its overt involvement in free distribution is essentially accessory to that.
    Ex: Libraries must also attempt to draw in the public by promoting fringe activities such as art exhibitions, concerts, talks by writers, craft demonstrations and films.
    Ex: In a general classification there are, of course, no fringe subjects: all are of equal weight, and must be given their due place in the overall order.
    Ex: The author gives an overview of derivative information sources.
    * actividad secundaria = sidelight activity.
    * actor secundario = secondary role.
    * almacenamiento secundario = secondary storage.
    * añadir como algo secundario = tack on.
    * asiento secundario = secondary entry.
    * asiento secundario por autor y título = author-title added entry, name-title added entry.
    * asiento secundario por título = title added entry.
    * atención secundaria = secondary care.
    * autor secundario = secondary author.
    * bibliografía secundaria = secondary literature.
    * carretera secundaria = minor road, back road.
    * color secundario = secondary colour.
    * concepto secundario = secondary concept, subsidiary concept.
    * descriptor secundario = minor descriptor.
    * desempeñar un papel secundario = play + second fiddle.
    * documento secundario = secondary document, secondary publication.
    * educación secundaria = secondary education.
    * efecto secundario = side effect [side-effect], spillover effect, after effect [after-effect].
    * efectos secundarios = knock-on effect.
    * encabezamiento secundario = added entry heading.
    * enseñanza secundaria = secondary education.
    * escuela de primer ciclo de secundaria = intermediate school.
    * escuela secundaria = junior school, middle school, upper school.
    * estudiante que ha completado los estudios secundarios = high school graduate.
    * fuente secundaria = secondary source.
    * hallazgo secundario = incidental finding.
    * idea secundaria = side issue.
    * incluir como registro de encabezamiento secundario = trace.
    * información secundaria = secondary information.
    * papel secundario = secondary role.
    * perderse por los caminos secundarios = go + off-road.
    * personaje secundario = secondary character.
    * producto secundario = by-product [byproduct].
    * puntos secundarios = secondary points.
    * registro de encabezamiento secundario de materia = subject tracing.
    * registro de encabezamientos secundarios = tracing.
    * responsabilidad secundaria = secondary responsibility.
    * servicios de documentos secundarios = secondary services.
    * tema de secundaria importancia = footnote.
    * término secundario = qualifying term.
    * tomar un papel secundario = take + a back seat.

    * * *
    ‹factor/problema› secondary
    el premio a la mejor actriz secundaria the award for the best supporting actress
    * * *

    secundario
    ◊ - ria adjetivo ‹factor/problema› secondary;


    ‹actor/actriz› supporting ( before n)
    secundario,-a adjetivo secondary
    ' secundario' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    accesoria
    - accesorio
    - sector
    - secundaria
    - subtítulo
    - efecto
    - marginal
    - menor
    English:
    after-effect
    - incidental
    - minor
    - prep school
    - secondary
    - senior
    - side
    - subsidiary
    - upstage
    - after
    - high
    - junior
    - peripheral
    - preparatory
    - sophomore
    - supporting
    * * *
    secundario, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [en orden] secondary
    2. [de menor importancia] minor;
    actor secundario supporting actor
    3. Geol secondary
    ♦ nm
    Geol
    el Secundario the Secondary (era)
    * * *
    adj secondary
    * * *
    secundario, - ria adj
    : secondary
    * * *
    secundario adj secondary

    Spanish-English dictionary > secundario

  • 6 secundaria

    adj.&f.
    1 secondary, second in order; subordinate.
    2 accessory.
    f.
    secondary school, high school.
    * * *
    1 EDUCACIÓN secondary education
    * * *
    f., (m. - secundario)
    * * *
    SF
    1) esp LAm (=enseñanza) secondary education, high school education (EEUU)
    2) Méx (=colegio) secondary school, high school (EEUU)
    * * *
    a) (AmL) ( enseñanza media) secondary education, high school (AmE)
    b) (Méx) ( instituto) middle school
    * * *
    a) (AmL) ( enseñanza media) secondary education, high school (AmE)
    b) (Méx) ( instituto) middle school
    * * *
    1 ( AmL) (enseñanza media) secondary education, high school ( AmE)
    2 ( Méx) (instituto) high school ( AmE), secondary school ( BrE)
    * * *

    Del verbo secundar: ( conjugate secundar)

    secundaría es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) condicional indicativo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) condicional indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    secundar    
    secundaria
    secundaria sustantivo femenino


    secundar verbo transitivo to back, support
    secundario,-a adjetivo secondary
    ' secundaria' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    enseñanza
    - eso
    - liceo
    - bachillerato
    - educación
    - estudiante
    - humanidad
    - profesor
    English:
    B road
    - by-road
    - comprehensive school
    - education
    - grammar school
    - high school
    - secondary school
    - by
    - grammar
    - intermediate
    - junior
    - minor
    - secondary
    - senior
    - sixth
    * * *
    [educación] secondary
    * * *
    1) : secondary education, high school
    2) Mex : junior high school, middle school

    Spanish-English dictionary > secundaria

  • 7 enseñanza

    f.
    1 teaching.
    2 lesson.
    3 education, learning, schoolteaching, schooling.
    4 training, instruction.
    * * *
    1 (educación) education, teaching
    2 (doctrina) teaching, doctrine
    \
    dedicarse a la enseñanza to be a teacher
    enseñanza general básica general basic education
    enseñanza laboral vocational training
    enseñanza primaria primary education
    enseñanza privada private education
    enseñanza pública state education
    enseñanza secundaria secondary education
    enseñanza secundaria obligatoria compulsory secondary education
    enseñanza superior higher education
    enseñanza universitaria university education
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=educación) education; (=acción, profesión) teaching

    enseñanza de niños con dificultades de aprendizaje — remedial teaching, special needs teaching

    enseñanza general básica — education course in Spain from 6 to 14

    enseñanza programada — programmed learning, programed learning (EEUU)

    2) (=entrenamiento) training
    3) (=doctrina) teaching, doctrine
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( docencia) teaching
    b) ( educación) education
    2) enseñanzas femenino plural ( doctrina) teachings (pl)
    * * *
    = instruction, teaching, tuition.
    Ex. Probably in most libraries instruction in library use and the use of information retrieval tools needs to be available in a number of different modes.
    Ex. Teaching is an activity of which teachers are the agents, just as nursing is an activity of which nurses are the agents.
    Ex. This article stresses that teaching methods are also to be updated to include, for example, individual tuition and role playing.
    ----
    * biblioteca de institución de enseñanza superior = tertiary library.
    * centro de enseñanza = education centre.
    * enseñanza a distancia = distance learning, distance teaching.
    * enseñanza antes de empezar el trabajo = pre-service education.
    * enseñanza asistida por ordenador = computer-aided learning (CAL).
    * enseñanza asistida por ordenador (CAI) = computer-assisted instruction (CAI).
    * enseñanza a través del estudio de casos = case-teaching.
    * enseñanza a través de medios electrónicos = online education.
    * enseñanza basada en los resultados finales = outcome based education.
    * enseñanza bibliotecaria = library education.
    * enseñanza de bellas artes = aesthetic education.
    * enseñanza de biblioteconomía = library education, library science education, educational librarianship.
    * enseñanza de biblioteconomía y documentación = library and information science education.
    * enseñanza de las ciencias = science education.
    * enseñanza elemental = elementary grade.
    * enseñanza en el trabajo = in-service education.
    * enseñanza en la búsqueda de información = information instruction.
    * enseñanza en línea = online education.
    * enseñanza escolar en casa = homeschooling [home schooling].
    * enseñanza media = middle grade.
    * enseñanza obligatoria = K-12, compulsory education.
    * Enseñanza Politécnica a Distancia = Open Polytechnic.
    * enseñanza por compañeros = peer instruction.
    * enseñanza por medio del ordenador (CBI) = computer-based instruction (CBI).
    * enseñanza presencial = contact teaching, contact learning.
    * enseñanza preuniversitaria = further education.
    * enseñanza primaria = elementary education, grade-school education, primary education.
    * enseñanza primaria y secundaria = school education, K-12, classroom education.
    * enseñanza profesional = vocational education.
    * enseñanza programada = programmed instruction.
    * enseñanza pública = public education.
    * enseñanza secundaria = secondary education.
    * enseñanza superior = higher education, higher learning, tertiary education.
    * enseñanza universitaria = college education, university education.
    * enseñanza virtual = electronic learning [e-learning].
    * escuela de enseñanza primaria = primary school.
    * estudiante de enseñanza superior = tertiary student.
    * impartir enseñanza = undertake + teaching.
    * institución de enseñanza pública = public education institution.
    * institución de enseñanza superior = tertiary institution, institution of higher education.
    * institución de enseñanza superior no universitaria = college of further education, college of higher education.
    * instituto de enseñanza secundaria = secondary school.
    * instrumento de ayuda a la enseñanza = teaching aid.
    * laboratorio de enseñanza = teaching lab.
    * material de enseñanza programada = programmed material.
    * método de enseñanza = teaching method.
    * metodología de la enseñanza = teaching methodology.
    * profesional de la enseñanza = educational professional.
    * relativo a la enseñanza superior = tertiary.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( docencia) teaching
    b) ( educación) education
    2) enseñanzas femenino plural ( doctrina) teachings (pl)
    * * *
    = instruction, teaching, tuition.

    Ex: Probably in most libraries instruction in library use and the use of information retrieval tools needs to be available in a number of different modes.

    Ex: Teaching is an activity of which teachers are the agents, just as nursing is an activity of which nurses are the agents.
    Ex: This article stresses that teaching methods are also to be updated to include, for example, individual tuition and role playing.
    * biblioteca de institución de enseñanza superior = tertiary library.
    * centro de enseñanza = education centre.
    * enseñanza a distancia = distance learning, distance teaching.
    * enseñanza antes de empezar el trabajo = pre-service education.
    * enseñanza asistida por ordenador = computer-aided learning (CAL).
    * enseñanza asistida por ordenador (CAI) = computer-assisted instruction (CAI).
    * enseñanza a través del estudio de casos = case-teaching.
    * enseñanza a través de medios electrónicos = online education.
    * enseñanza basada en los resultados finales = outcome based education.
    * enseñanza bibliotecaria = library education.
    * enseñanza de bellas artes = aesthetic education.
    * enseñanza de biblioteconomía = library education, library science education, educational librarianship.
    * enseñanza de biblioteconomía y documentación = library and information science education.
    * enseñanza de las ciencias = science education.
    * enseñanza elemental = elementary grade.
    * enseñanza en el trabajo = in-service education.
    * enseñanza en la búsqueda de información = information instruction.
    * enseñanza en línea = online education.
    * enseñanza escolar en casa = homeschooling [home schooling].
    * enseñanza media = middle grade.
    * enseñanza obligatoria = K-12, compulsory education.
    * Enseñanza Politécnica a Distancia = Open Polytechnic.
    * enseñanza por compañeros = peer instruction.
    * enseñanza por medio del ordenador (CBI) = computer-based instruction (CBI).
    * enseñanza presencial = contact teaching, contact learning.
    * enseñanza preuniversitaria = further education.
    * enseñanza primaria = elementary education, grade-school education, primary education.
    * enseñanza primaria y secundaria = school education, K-12, classroom education.
    * enseñanza profesional = vocational education.
    * enseñanza programada = programmed instruction.
    * enseñanza pública = public education.
    * enseñanza secundaria = secondary education.
    * enseñanza superior = higher education, higher learning, tertiary education.
    * enseñanza universitaria = college education, university education.
    * enseñanza virtual = electronic learning [e-learning].
    * escuela de enseñanza primaria = primary school.
    * estudiante de enseñanza superior = tertiary student.
    * impartir enseñanza = undertake + teaching.
    * institución de enseñanza pública = public education institution.
    * institución de enseñanza superior = tertiary institution, institution of higher education.
    * institución de enseñanza superior no universitaria = college of further education, college of higher education.
    * instituto de enseñanza secundaria = secondary school.
    * instrumento de ayuda a la enseñanza = teaching aid.
    * laboratorio de enseñanza = teaching lab.
    * material de enseñanza programada = programmed material.
    * método de enseñanza = teaching method.
    * metodología de la enseñanza = teaching methodology.
    * profesional de la enseñanza = educational professional.
    * relativo a la enseñanza superior = tertiary.

    * * *
    A
    1 (docencia) teaching
    no me atrae la enseñanza como carrera teaching doesn't appeal to me as a career
    métodos de enseñanza teaching methods
    los ordenadores en la enseñanza computers in teaching o education
    centro m C. (↑ centro)
    2 (educación) education
    3 (lección) lesson
    que esto te sirva de enseñanza let this be a lesson to you
    Compuestos:
    distance learning, correspondence courses (pl)
    ● enseñanza media or secundaria
    high school ( AmE) o ( BrE) secondary education
    elementary ( AmE) o ( BrE) primary education
    programmed learning
    higher education
    college ( AmE) o ( BrE) university education
    B enseñanzas fpl (doctrina, principios) teachings (pl)
    * * *

     

    enseñanza sustantivo femenino



    enseñanza media or secundaria high school (AmE) o (BrE) secondary education;
    enseñanza primaria elementary (AmE) o (BrE) primary education;
    enseñanza universitaria college (AmE) o (BrE) university education
    enseñanza sustantivo femenino
    1 (transmisión de conocimientos) teaching: se dedica a la enseñanza, he's in teaching
    2 (sistema de formación) education
    enseñanza primaria/secundaria, primary/secondary education 3 enseñanzas, teachings
    ' enseñanza' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alfabetización
    - colegio
    - dedicarse
    - eso
    - gratuidad
    - liceo
    - magisterio
    - máxima
    - superior
    - suplente
    - distancia
    - doctrina
    - educación
    - humanidad
    - secundaria
    English:
    comprehensive school
    - education
    - grammar school
    - high school
    - higher education
    - instruction
    - primary
    - schoolteaching
    - secondary school
    - state
    - teaching
    - TEFL
    - traditional
    - comprehensive
    - compulsory
    - distance
    - educational
    - elementary
    - go
    - grammar
    - higher
    - intermediate
    - junior
    - pay
    - profession
    - secondary
    - senior
    - sixth
    - take
    * * *
    1. [educación] education;
    [actividad docente] teaching;
    la calidad de la enseñanza en este país the quality of education in this country;
    se dedica a la enseñanza he works as a teacher;
    un centro de enseñanza an educational institution
    enseñanza a distancia distance education;
    enseñanza estatal state education;
    enseñanza de idiomas language teaching;
    enseñanza media secondary education;
    enseñanza personalizada personal o individual tutoring;
    enseñanza primaria primary education;
    enseñanza privada private (sector) education;
    enseñanza pública state education;
    enseñanza secundaria secondary education;
    enseñanza superior higher education;
    enseñanza universitaria university education
    2. [lección] lesson;
    de cualquier error puede extraerse o [m5] sacarse una enseñanza there's a lesson to be learned from every mistake you make;
    aquello me sirvió de enseñanza that was a lesson to me;
    enseñanzas [de filósofo, profeta] teachings
    * * *
    f
    1 teaching;
    dedicarse a la enseñanza take up teaching, become a teacher
    2
    :
    sacar una enseñanza de algo learn a lesson from sth
    * * *
    1) educación: education
    2) : teaching
    * * *
    1. (actividad) teaching
    2. (sistema) education

    Spanish-English dictionary > enseñanza

  • 8 cycle

    cycle [sikl]
    masculine noun
       a. ( = bicyclette) cycle
       b. ( = processus) cycle
    • second or deuxième cycle last three years of secondary education
       d. (University) premier cycle ≈ first and second year
    • deuxième or second cycle ≈ Final Honours
    • troisième cycle ≈ postgraduate studies
    • diplôme de troisième cycle ≈ postgraduate degree, ≈ PhD
    • étudiant de troisième cycle ≈ postgraduate student
    * * *
    sikl
    nom masculin
    1) (de phénomènes, changements) cycle

    cycle infernal — fig vicious cycle

    2) ( série) gén series (+ v sg)
    3) Littérature cycle

    premier cycle — first two years of a degree course leading to a diploma

    deuxième cycle — final two years of a degree course

    troisième cycle — postgraduate GB ou graduate US studies

    5) ( bicyclette) cycle
    •
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    sikl nm

    premier cycle — middle school Grande-Bretagne junior high school USA

    second cycle — upper school Grande-Bretagne senior high school USA

    3) (= bicyclette) cycle
    * * *
    cycle nm
    1 (de phénomènes, changements) cycle; cycle solaire/du carbone solar/carbon cycle; cycle de fonctionnement operating cycle; cycle infernal fig vicious cycle;
    2 ( série) gén series (sg); ( de conférences) course, series; deux cycles de dix sessions two series of ten sessions; deux cycles de dix semaines two ten-week courses;
    3 Littérat cycle; cycle de la Table ronde Arthurian cycle; cycle de chansons song cycle;
    4 Scol premier/second cycle first four years/last three years of secondary school; cycle court nonacademic course (in secondary school); cycle long academic course (leading to university entrance) GB, academic course (for college-bound students) US;
    5 Univ premier cycle first two years of a degree course leading to a diploma; deuxième cycle final two years of a degree course; troisième cycle postgraduate GB ou graduate US studies;
    6 ( bicyclette) cycle; magasin de cycles cycle shop.
    cycle de formation training course.
    [sikl] nom masculin
    1. [série] cycle
    cycle lunaire/solaire ASTRONOMIE lunar/solar cycle
    2. [évolution] cycle
    3. ÉDUCATION & UNIVERSITÉ cycle
    il suit un cycle court/long ≃ he'll leave school at sixteen/go on to higher education
    b. UNIVERSITÉ first and second years (UK), freshman and sophomore years (US)
    5. [véhicule] cycle

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > cycle

  • 9 eso

    intj.
    that's it.
    pron.
    1 that (neutro).
    eso es la Torre Eiffel that's the Eiffel Tower
    eso es lo que yo pienso that's just what I think
    eso que propones es irrealizable what you're proposing is impossible
    eso de vivir solo no me gusta I don't like the idea of living on my own
    ¡eso, eso! that's right!, yes!
    ¡eso es! that's it
    ¿cómo es eso?, ¿y eso? how come? (¿por qué?)
    para eso es mejor no ir if that's all it is, you might as well not go
    por eso vine that's why I came
    a eso de (at) about o around
    a eso del mediodía round about midday
    en eso just then, at that very moment
    y eso que even though
    2 it.
    * * *
    * * *
    pron.
    * * *
    SF ABR Esp
    = Enseñanza Secundaria obligatoria compulsory secondary education for 12 to 16 year-olds ESO As a consequence of the 1990 education reform law, LOGSE, secondary education in Spain is now divided into two stages. The first stage, ESO, or Educación Secundaria Obligatoria, is for 12- to 16-year-olds. It is free and compulsory and includes both vocational and academic subjects. Students are awarded the Título de Graduado en Educación Secundaria on successful completion at age 16 and can leave school at this point. If they choose to continue their education they go on to the second stage, which consists of either the academically orientated Bachillerato or the vocational Formación Profesional Específica.
    See:
    * * *
    femenino ( en Esp) = Educación Secundaria Obligatoria
    * * *
    Ex. There will always be differences between the races and the genders and all that sort of thing.
    * * *
    femenino ( en Esp) = Educación Secundaria Obligatoria
    * * *

    Ex: There will always be differences between the races and the genders and all that sort of thing.

    * * *
    (en Esp) = Educación Secundaria Obligatoria
    * * *

    Multiple Entries:
    ESO    
    eso
    eso pron dem
    a) ( neutro) that;


    eso que te contaron what they told you
    b) ( en locs)

    ◊ a eso de (at) around o about;

    en eso: en eso llegó su madre (just) at that moment her mother arrived;
    ¡eso es! that's it!;
    y eso que … even though …;
    por eso that's why
    c)

    ◊ ¡eso! ( interj) exactly!

    eso pron dem neut that: eso de los fantasmas es una tontería, this whole thing about ghosts is nonsense
    ¡eso es!, that's it!
    no me dio ni eso, she didn't give me even that
    por eso nos vamos, that's why we are leaving
    ♦ Locuciones: a eso de, around: a eso de la medianoche, around midnight
    ' ESO' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    advertir
    - alcance
    - amargarse
    - aparte
    - así
    - bajeza
    - bastarse
    - broma
    - caer
    - calumnia
    - característica
    - característico
    - chistar
    - chupada
    - chupado
    - colmo
    - cómo
    - con
    - conducir
    - cosa
    - cuento
    - dar
    - deberse
    - derecha
    - derecho
    - diferenciar
    - discutible
    - doler
    - educación
    - empezar
    - entrar
    - ser
    - escribirse
    - eso
    - excusa
    - falsa
    - falso
    - faltar
    - ir
    - hacer
    - harina
    - importar
    - interesar
    - jorobar
    - llevar
    - luego
    - malpensada
    - malpensado
    - marcha
    - menos
    English:
    about
    - absolutely
    - affair
    - all
    - anything
    - ball
    - ball game
    - care
    - careful
    - common
    - debate
    - defy
    - deliberately
    - design
    - dig
    - do
    - done
    - dwell on
    - enough
    - failing
    - feel
    - fit
    - fortunate
    - go for
    - grab
    - harp on
    - head
    - here
    - however
    - it
    - joke
    - just
    - kick up
    - labour
    - like
    - mean
    - most
    - move
    - mud
    - nasty
    - need
    - no
    - none
    - nowhere
    - objection
    - occasion
    - ocean
    - of
    - offence
    - ominously
    * * *
    = mainstream secondary education in Spain for pupils aged 12-16
    ESO
    Mandatory secondary education or ESO (“Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria”) in Spain lasts four years, from the age of twelve to sixteen. This is divided into two two-year cycles. At the end of the second cycle (equivalent to junior year in high school), students can either go on to two years of further study if they want to go to college, or take vocational and technical courses.
    * * *
    f abr Esp
    (= educación secundaria obligatoria) compulsory secondary education
    * * *
    eso pron, (neuter)
    1) : that
    eso no me gusta: I don't like that
    2)
    ¡eso es! : that's it!, that's right!
    3)
    a eso de : around
    a eso de las tres: around three o'clock
    4)
    en eso : at that point, just then
    * * *
    ESO n secondary education

    Spanish-English dictionary > eso

  • 10 instituto

    m.
    1 institute.
    2 high school (centro) (de enseñanza secundaria). (peninsular Spanish)
    instituto de belleza beauty salon
    3 institution.
    * * *
    1 (asociación) institute
    2 EDUCACIÓN state secondary school, US high school
    \
    instituto de bachillerato state secondary school, US high school
    instituto de belleza beauty salon
    instituto de enseñanza media state secondary school, US high school
    Instituto Nacional de la Vivienda ≈ Ministry of Housing
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=organismo) institute, institution

    los institutos armados — the army, the military

    instituto de belleza — Esp beauty parlour, beauty parlor (EEUU)

    Instituto Nacional de Empleo (INEM) — ≈ Department of Employment

    Instituto Nacional de Industria (INI) — Esp ( Hist) ≈ Board of Trade

    2) Esp (Educ) ≈ secondary school (Brit), ≈ high school (EEUU)

    Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria — ≈ (state) secondary school (Brit), ≈ high school (EEUU)

    Instituto Nacional de Bachillerato — ≈ (state) secondary school (Brit), ≈ high school (EEUU)

    3) (=regla) [gen] principle, rule; (Rel) rule
    * * *
    masculino institute
    * * *
    = High (School), high school, institute, college, grammar school.
    Ex. The article 'Why girls flock to Sweet Valley High' investigates the appeal to girls of adolescent romances and what, if anything, could be done to broaden the reading habits of such fans of formula fiction.
    Ex. The two had spent almost an hour in an informal discussion of various matters that came within his jurisdiction as head of the library media center at John Brown Junior high school in Los Pasos.
    Ex. The offenders vary from forgetful lecturers to a student who lost the books and cannot pay the fine, to a student who had torn out pages from a book and now faces an expulsion from the institute.
    Ex. Special colleges were established offering technical and practical programs for farmers and laborers.
    Ex. Even so, school library provision has been improved and increased out of all recognition since the days when only the long established grammar schools and public schools had libraries of their own.
    ----
    * Instituto Americano de Documentación (ADI) = American Documentation Institute (ADI).
    * Instituto Australiano de Bibliotecarios (IAB) = Australian Institute of Librarians (AIL).
    * Instituto de Cartografía Americano = US Geological Survey (USGS).
    * Instituto de Cartografía Británico = Ordnance Survey.
    * Instituto de Cartografía Estatal = State Geological Survey.
    * instituto de desarrollo = development institute.
    * instituto de enseñanza secundaria = secondary school.
    * instituto de estadística = statistical institute.
    * instituto de formación profesional = technical school.
    * Instituto de Información Científica (ISI) = Institute of Scientific Information (ISI).
    * instituto de investigación = research institute.
    * Instituto Nacional de la Salud (INSALUD) = National Institutes of Health (NIH).
    * instituto para el desarrollo = development institute.
    * instituto para la investigación y el desarrollo = research and development institute.
    * * *
    masculino institute
    * * *
    = High (School), high school, institute, college, grammar school.

    Ex: The article 'Why girls flock to Sweet Valley High' investigates the appeal to girls of adolescent romances and what, if anything, could be done to broaden the reading habits of such fans of formula fiction.

    Ex: The two had spent almost an hour in an informal discussion of various matters that came within his jurisdiction as head of the library media center at John Brown Junior high school in Los Pasos.
    Ex: The offenders vary from forgetful lecturers to a student who lost the books and cannot pay the fine, to a student who had torn out pages from a book and now faces an expulsion from the institute.
    Ex: Special colleges were established offering technical and practical programs for farmers and laborers.
    Ex: Even so, school library provision has been improved and increased out of all recognition since the days when only the long established grammar schools and public schools had libraries of their own.
    * Instituto Americano de Documentación (ADI) = American Documentation Institute (ADI).
    * Instituto Australiano de Bibliotecarios (IAB) = Australian Institute of Librarians (AIL).
    * Instituto de Cartografía Americano = US Geological Survey (USGS).
    * Instituto de Cartografía Británico = Ordnance Survey.
    * Instituto de Cartografía Estatal = State Geological Survey.
    * instituto de desarrollo = development institute.
    * instituto de enseñanza secundaria = secondary school.
    * instituto de estadística = statistical institute.
    * instituto de formación profesional = technical school.
    * Instituto de Información Científica (ISI) = Institute of Scientific Information (ISI).
    * instituto de investigación = research institute.
    * Instituto Nacional de la Salud (INSALUD) = National Institutes of Health (NIH).
    * instituto para el desarrollo = development institute.
    * instituto para la investigación y el desarrollo = research and development institute.

    * * *
    instituto (↑ instituto a1)
    institute
    Compuestos:
    ( Esp) beauty parlor*
    (en Esp) secondary school
    ( Esp) high school ( AmE), secondary school ( BrE)
    In Spain, a center of secondary education providing ESO - Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (↑ ESO a1), Bachillerato (↑ bachillerato a1). Institutos are part of the state school system so are free of charge.
    * * *

     

    instituto sustantivo masculino
    institute;

    instituto sustantivo masculino
    1 (institución cultural) institute
    2 Educ state secondary school, US high school 3 instituto de belleza, beauty parlour o salon

    ' instituto' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cátedra
    - catedrática
    - catedrático
    - echar
    - geográfica
    - geográfico
    - INEM
    - Insalud
    - INSERSO
    - secundaria
    English:
    at
    - attend
    - college
    - comprehensive school
    - grammar school
    - high school
    - homecoming
    - institute
    - National Trust
    - old
    - prep school
    - school
    - schoolmaster
    - schoolmistress
    - schoolteacher
    - secondary school
    - comprehensive
    - high
    - secondary
    - stamp
    - teacher
    - technical
    * * *
    1. [corporación] institute
    Instituto Cervantes = organization that promotes Spain and its language in the rest of the world, Br ≈ British Council;
    Instituto Nacional de Meteorología = Spanish national weather forecasting agency, Br ≈ Met Office
    2. Esp [militar]
    el instituto de la Guardia Civil the Civil Guard, = armed Spanish police force who patrol rural areas and highways, and guard public buildings in cities and police borders and coasts
    3. Esp [colegio] high school;
    Antes
    Instituto (Nacional) de Bachillerato o [m5] Enseñanza Media = state secondary school for 14-18-year-olds, US ≈ Senior High School
    instituto de Formación Profesional technical college
    4. [salón] instituto de belleza beauty salon;
    instituto capilar hair clinic
    * * *
    m
    1 institute
    2 Esp
    high school, Br
    secondary school
    * * *
    : institute
    * * *
    1. (organización) institute
    2. (de enseñanza) secondary school

    Spanish-English dictionary > instituto

  • 11 enseñanza


    enseñanza sustantivo femenino enseñanza media or secundaria high school (AmE) o (BrE) secondary education; enseñanza primaria elementary (AmE) o (BrE) primary education; enseñanza universitaria college (AmE) o (BrE) university education
    enseñanza sustantivo femenino
    1 (transmisión de conocimientos) teaching: se dedica a la enseñanza, he's in teaching
    2 (sistema de formación) education
    enseñanza primaria/secundaria, primary/secondary education 3 enseñanzas, teachings ' enseñanza' also found in these entries: Spanish: alfabetización - colegio - dedicarse - eso - gratuidad - liceo - magisterio - máxima - superior - suplente - distancia - doctrina - educación - humanidad - secundaria English: comprehensive school - education - grammar school - high school - higher education - instruction - primary - schoolteaching - secondary school - state - teaching - TEFL - traditional - comprehensive - compulsory - distance - educational - elementary - go - grammar - higher - intermediate - junior - pay - profession - secondary - senior - sixth - take

    English-spanish dictionary > enseñanza

  • 12 secundaria

    Del verbo secundar: ( conjugate secundar) \ \
    secundaría es: \ \
    1ª persona singular (yo) condicional indicativo
    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) condicional indicativo
    Multiple Entries: secundar     secundaria
    secundaria sustantivo femenino
    secundar verbo transitivo to back, support
    secundario,-a adjetivo secondary ' secundaria' also found in these entries: Spanish: enseñanza - eso - liceo - bachillerato - educación - estudiante - humanidad - profesor English: B road - by-road - comprehensive school - education - grammar school - high school - secondary school - by - grammar - intermediate - junior - minor - secondary - senior - sixth

    English-spanish dictionary > secundaria

  • 13 средняя школа

    1) General subject: college, grammar school, high school, junior secondary school (для детей 12-16 лет, в Шотландии), middle school (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_school), modern technical school (с техническим уклоном в Англии), public school (бесплатная; в США и в Шотландии), secondary school, senior (the upper) school
    2) American: heygh, high, (7, 8, 9 классы) junior high

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > средняя школа

  • 14 неполная средняя школа

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > неполная средняя школа

  • 15 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 16 medio

    (pl -di) 1. adj età, classe et cetera middle attr
    guadagno, statura, rendimento average
    2. m middle finger
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    medio agg.
    1 (di mezzo, mediano) middle, medium: media età, middle age; un uomo di età media, a middle-aged man; il corso medio di un fiume, the middle course of a river; dito medio, middle finger; di grandezza media, middle-size (o medium-sized) // (econ.): a medio termine, middle-term; valore medio di mercato, middle marked value // ceto medio, middle class (es) // (sport) peso medio, middleweight // scuola media, Italian middle school (o secondary school o amer. junior high school) // (fil.) termine medio, middle term // il Medio Evo, the Middle Ages // il Medio Oriente, the Middle East
    2 (conforme alla media) average (attr.); mean (attr.): produzione media, average production; statura media, middle (o average o medium) height; intelligenza media, average intelligence; prezzo medio, average price; (astr.) tempo medio, mean time, ( sport) average time; (econ.) scarto medio dei prezzi, mean price difference
    3 (tecn.) medium: (cinem.) campo medio, medium shot; (rad.) onde medie, medium waves
    ◆ s.m.
    1 (dito medio) middle finger
    2 (mat.) mean (term)
    3 ( sport) middleweight
    4 (comm.) medio circolante, circulating medium (o currency).
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    ['mɛdjo] medio -dia, -di, -die
    1. agg
    (gen) average, (misura, corporatura) average, medium, (peso, ceto) middle

    scuola media — school for pupils aged 11 - 14: education beyond this level is not compulsory

    2. sm
    (dito) middle finger
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    1.
    pl. -di, - die ['mɛdjo, di, dje] aggettivo
    1) [età, peso, statura, intelligenza, temperatura, prezzo] medium, average

    di -a grandezza — medium-sized, midsize

    2) (ordinario) [utente, lettore] general; [consumatore, famiglia] average, ordinary
    3) (nella media) [costo, guadagno, rendita, temperatura] average, median
    2.
    sostantivo maschile (dito) middle finger

    Medio Oriente — Middle East, Mideast AE

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    medio
    pl. -di, - die /'mεdjo, di, dje/
     1 [età, peso, statura, intelligenza, temperatura, prezzo] medium, average; di -a grandezza medium-sized, midsize; di livello medio medium-level; onde -e medium waves
     2 (ordinario) [utente, lettore] general; [consumatore, famiglia] average, ordinary; ceto medio middle class; il cittadino medio Mr Average
     3 (nella media) [costo, guadagno, rendita, temperatura] average, median; velocità -a average speed
     4 sport pesi -i middleweight
      (dito) middle finger
    Medio Oriente Middle East, Mideast AE.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > medio

  • 17 scuola

    f school
    scuola di lingue language school
    scuola elementare primary school
    scuola media secondary school
    scuola serale evening classes pl
    scuola superiore high school
    scuola guida driving school
    andare a scuola go to school
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    scuola s.f.
    1 school; ( istruzione) education: scuola materna, nursery school; scuola elementare, primary (o elementary) school; scuola media inferiore, secondary school (o amer. junior high school); scuola media superiore, secondary school (o amer. high school); scuola mista, mixed school; scuola parificata, state-recognised private school; scuola parrocchiale, parish school; scuola privata, private school; scuola pubblica, state school; scuola dell'obbligo, compulsory education; scuola rurale, rural (o village) school; scuola a tempo pieno, full-time school; scuola diurna, day-classes; scuola serale, evening classes (o evening school); scuola all'aperto, open-air school; scuola magistrale, (teachers) training college; scuola tecnica, technical school; scuola commerciale, commercial school (o school of commerce); scuola aziendale, business school; scuola professionale, vocational (o trade) school; scuola di economia, school of economics; scuola di ballo, dancing school; scuola di disegno, drawing (o art) school; scuola di equitazione, riding school; scuola di scherma, fencing school; scuola di taglio, school of dress-making; compagno di scuola, school-friend (o schoolfellow o schoolmate); maestra di scuola, schoolmistress (o schoolteacher); maestro di scuola, schoolmaster (o schoolteacher); andare a scuola, to go to school; quando riapre la scuola?, when will school start again?; lasciare la scuola, to leave school; la scuola non gli piace, he does not like school // marinare la scuola, to play truant // cantiere scuola, workshop // nave scuola, training ship // alta scuola, haute école
    2 ( lezione) school, lesson (anche fig.); ( esempio) example: ieri non avemmo scuola, yesterday we had no lessons (o school); faccio scuola dalle 17 alle 21, I teach from 5 o'clock to 9 o'clock; questo periodo all'estero sarà un'ottima scuola per lui, this period abroad will be a very good experience for him; la scuola dell'esperienza, the school of experience; ciò ti serva di scuola, let this be a lesson (o an example) to you // seguire la scuola di qlcu., to follow s.o.'s example
    3 (arte, fil., scient.) school: (pitt.) la scuola fiamminga, fiorentina, the Dutch, Florentine school; (lett.) la scuola romantica, the Romantic school; (fil.) la scuola socratica, platonica, the Socratic, Platonic school // cresciuto alla scuola del materialismo, reared in the school of materialism // appartiene alla vecchia scuola, he belongs to the old school // fare scuola, to create a school (o to set a fashion).
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    ['skwɔla]
    1. sf
    (istituzione, edificio) school
    2. agg inv
    See:
    Cultural note: scuola Following the passage of the law on educational reform in 2003, Italian children go to "scuola dell'infanzia" for three years (age 3-6), after which they attend "scuola primaria" for five years (age 6-11). The first stage of education is then completed by three years of "scuola secondaria di primo grado" (age 11-14). For the second stage of their education, students can choose between various types of school and can specialize in various subjects.
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    ['skwɔla]
    sostantivo femminile

    essere, andare a scuola — to be at, to go to school

    avere scuola — (lezione) to have school

    2) (sistema) education (system)
    3) (fonte di formazione) school (di of), training (di for, in)

    scuola di vita — school of hard knocks, university of life, training for life

    4) art. letter. filos. school
    •

    scuola elementare — primary o elementary school, grade school AE

    scuola di lingue — school of languages, language school

    scuola magistrale — = formerly, high school specializing in education

    scuola materna — nursery school, kindergarten, preschool AE

    scuola media inferiore — = three years post elementary course, middle school BE, junior high school AE

    scuola media superiore — = course of studies following middle school/junior high school and preceding university

    scuola pubblica — state school, public school AE

    scuola serale — evening school, night school

    scuola di stato o statale state school; scuola superiore — secondary school

    ••

    fare scuola — (insegnare) to teach (school); (avere seguaci) to gain a following

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    scuola
    /'skwɔla/
    sostantivo f.
     1 school; essere, andare a scuola to be at, to go to school; la scuola è finita school is over; fin dai tempi della scuola since one's schooldays; avere scuola (lezione) to have school
     2 (sistema) education (system); riformare la scuola to reform the education system
     3 (fonte di formazione) school (di of), training (di for, in); scuola di vita school of hard knocks, university of life, training for life; della vecchia scuola of the old school
     4 art. letter. filos. school; scuola fiamminga Dutch School; scuola di pensiero school of thought
    fare scuola (insegnare) to teach (school); (avere seguaci) to gain a following
    \
    scuola alberghiera hotel-management school; scuola di ballo dancing school; scuola per corrispondenza correspondence college; scuola di danza ballet school; scuola elementare primary o elementary school, grade school AE; scuola guida driving school; scuola di lingue school of languages, language school; scuola magistrale = formerly, high school specializing in education; scuola materna nursery school, kindergarten, preschool AE; scuola media inferiore = three years post elementary course, middle school BE, junior high school AE; scuola media superiore = course of studies following middle school/junior high school and preceding university; scuola dell'obbligo compulsory education; scuola privata private school; scuola professionale vocational school; scuola pubblica state school, public school AE; scuola secondaria →  scuola superiore; scuola serale evening school, night school; scuola di stato o statale state school; scuola superiore secondary school.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > scuola

  • 18 collège

    collège [kɔlεʒ]
    masculine noun
    • collège d'enseignement général et professionnel (Canadian) ≈ sixth-form college (Brit), ≈ junior college (US)
       b. (Politics, Religion) ( = assemblée) college
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    The term collège refers to the type of state secondary school French children attend between the ages of 11 and 15 (ie after « école primaire » and before « lycée »). Collège covers the school years « sixième », « cinquième », « quatrième » and « troisième ». At the end of « troisième », pupils take the examination known as the « brevet des collèges ». → LYCÉE
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    kɔlɛʒ
    nom masculin
    1) ( école)

    collège (d'enseignement secondaire), CES — secondary school GB, junior high school US ( up to age 16)

    2) ( assemblée) college
    •
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    kɔlɛʒ nm
    1) (= école) school, secondary school
    2) (= assemblée) body
    * * *
    1 ( école) secondary school GB, junior high school US;
    2 ( assemblée) college; collège électoral Pol electoral college.
    collège d'enseignement secondaire, CES secondary school GB, junior high school US; collège d'enseignement technique, CET technical secondary school in France.
    ⓘ Collège The school for pupils aged 11-15. The curriculum and organization are nationally prescribed.
    [kɔlɛʒ] nom masculin
    collège privé/technique private/technical school
    2. [corps constitué] college
    collège électoral body of electors, constituency
    This place of learning near the Sorbonne holds public lectures given by prominent academics and specialists. It is not a university and does not confer degrees, although it is controlled by the Ministry of Education.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > collège

  • 19 Hauptschule

    f etwa secondary school, a school that takes students through the last five years of their compulsory period of education
    * * *
    A Hauptschule caters for the last five years of the compulsory nine years at school in Germany. Students can then stay on for another year and, if their marks are good enough, obtain a qualifizierter Hauptschulabschluss, known colloquially as a Quali, which gives them a better chance in the job market and also entitles them to attend a Fachoberschule. In Austria a Hauptschule covers school years five to eight and also offers opportunities for young people who wish to go on to higher education. In Switzerland compulsory schooling is provided by a Volksschule. See: → Orientierungsstufe
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    Haupt·schu·le
    f ≈ secondary modern school BRIT, ≈ junior high school AM (covering years 5 to 9 or the last 5 years of the compulsory nine years at school in Germany or years 5 to 8 in Austria)
    * * *
    die ≈ secondary modern school
    •• Cultural note:
    The secondary school which prepares pupils for the Hauptschulabschluss (school-leaving certificate). The Hauptschule aims to give the least academically-inclined children a sound educational grounding. Pupils stay at the Hauptschule for 5 or 6 years after the Grundschule. See also Schule, Lehre
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    Hauptschule f etwa secondary school, a school that takes students through the last five years of their compulsory period of education
    * * *
    die ≈ secondary modern school
    •• Cultural note:
    The secondary school which prepares pupils for the Hauptschulabschluss (school-leaving certificate). The Hauptschule aims to give the least academically-inclined children a sound educational grounding. Pupils stay at the Hauptschule for 5 or 6 years after the Grundschule. See also Schule, Lehre
    * * *
    -n f.
    junior high school (US) n.
    middle school (US) n.
    secondary modern school (UK) n.
    secondary school (non-academic) n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Hauptschule

  • 20 estudiante

    adj.
    student.
    f. & m.
    student.
    estudiante universitario university student
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    1 student
    * * *
    noun mf.
    * * *
    * * *
    masculino y femenino ( de universidad) student; ( de secundaria) (high-school) student (AmE), (secondary school) pupil (BrE)

    estudiante de Derecho/Inglés — law/English student

    * * *
    Ex. Schoolchildren, students, and other whose native language is written in a non-Roman script may find alphabetical order according to Roman characters an almost insurmountable hurdle in the use of catalogues and indexes.
    ----
    * atención al estudiante = student services.
    * basado en el estudiante = student-centred.
    * centrado en el estudiante = student-centred.
    * descuento por ser estudiante = student rate.
    * estudiante a distancia = distance student.
    * estudiante adulto = mature student.
    * estudiante con buenas notas = high achiever.
    * estudiante de bachiller que abandona los estudios = high-school dropout.
    * estudiante de ciencias de la educación = education student, student teacher.
    * estudiante de cursos superiores = upperclassman.
    * estudiante de diplomatura = undergraduate, undergraduate student, honours student.
    * estudiante de doctorado = doctoral student, Ph.D. candidate, Ph.D. student, doctoral candidate, doctoral graduate.
    * estudiante de empresariales = business student.
    * estudiante de enseñanza superior = tertiary student.
    * estudiante de intercambio = exchange student.
    * estudiante de licenciatura = graduate student.
    * estudiante de magisterio = student teacher.
    * estudiante de matrícula libre = external student.
    * estudiante de medicina = medical student.
    * estudiante de penúltimo año = junior student, junior.
    * estudiante de primaria = elementary student.
    * estudiante de primer año = freshman [freshmen, -pl.], first-year student.
    * estudiante de recuperación = remedial.
    * estudiante de segundo año = sophomore.
    * estudiante destacado = achiever.
    * estudiante de último año = senior student, senior.
    * estudiante de último curso = final year student.
    * estudiante de un día a la semana = day release student.
    * estudiante escogido para pronunciar el discurso de despedida en la cere = valedictorian.
    * estudiante externo = off campus student.
    * estudiante extranjero = foreign student, overseas student, international student, exchange student.
    * estudiante fracasado = dropout, high-school dropout, school dropout.
    * estudiante posterior a la diplomatura = postgraduate student.
    * estudiante proveniente de otra universidad = transfer student.
    * estudiante que ha completado los estudios secundarios = high school graduate, high school leaver.
    * estudiante que trabaja como auxiliar = student assistant, student aid.
    * estudiantes = school population, student body.
    * estudiante superdotado = gifted achiever.
    * estudiante trabajador = student worker.
    * estudiante universitario = university student, college student.
    * estudiante universitario de primer año = college freshman.
    * estudiante universitario de último curso = senior major.
    * estudiante universitario externo = off-campus university student.
    * estudiante universitario que abandona los estudios = college dropout.
    * estudiante virtual = e-learner (electronic learner).
    * generación de estudiantes = cohort of students.
    * habitación de residencia de estudiantes = dorm room.
    * intercambio de estudiantes = student exchange.
    * precio para estudiantes = student rate.
    * promoción de estudiantes = cohort of students.
    * representante de los estudiantes = student representative.
    * residencia de estudiantes = dormitory [dorm, -abbr.], dorm, students' home, hall of residence, residence hall, student residence.
    * sala de estudiantes = student common room.
    * servicios a los estudiantes = student services.
    * servicios de atención al estudiante = student services.
    * sindicato de estudiantes = students' union.
    * * *
    masculino y femenino ( de universidad) student; ( de secundaria) (high-school) student (AmE), (secondary school) pupil (BrE)

    estudiante de Derecho/Inglés — law/English student

    * * *

    Ex: Schoolchildren, students, and other whose native language is written in a non-Roman script may find alphabetical order according to Roman characters an almost insurmountable hurdle in the use of catalogues and indexes.

    * atención al estudiante = student services.
    * basado en el estudiante = student-centred.
    * centrado en el estudiante = student-centred.
    * descuento por ser estudiante = student rate.
    * estudiante a distancia = distance student.
    * estudiante adulto = mature student.
    * estudiante con buenas notas = high achiever.
    * estudiante de bachiller que abandona los estudios = high-school dropout.
    * estudiante de ciencias de la educación = education student, student teacher.
    * estudiante de cursos superiores = upperclassman.
    * estudiante de diplomatura = undergraduate, undergraduate student, honours student.
    * estudiante de doctorado = doctoral student, Ph.D. candidate, Ph.D. student, doctoral candidate, doctoral graduate.
    * estudiante de empresariales = business student.
    * estudiante de enseñanza superior = tertiary student.
    * estudiante de intercambio = exchange student.
    * estudiante de licenciatura = graduate student.
    * estudiante de magisterio = student teacher.
    * estudiante de matrícula libre = external student.
    * estudiante de medicina = medical student.
    * estudiante de penúltimo año = junior student, junior.
    * estudiante de primaria = elementary student.
    * estudiante de primer año = freshman [freshmen, -pl.], first-year student.
    * estudiante de recuperación = remedial.
    * estudiante de segundo año = sophomore.
    * estudiante destacado = achiever.
    * estudiante de último año = senior student, senior.
    * estudiante de último curso = final year student.
    * estudiante de un día a la semana = day release student.
    * estudiante escogido para pronunciar el discurso de despedida en la cere = valedictorian.
    * estudiante externo = off campus student.
    * estudiante extranjero = foreign student, overseas student, international student, exchange student.
    * estudiante fracasado = dropout, high-school dropout, school dropout.
    * estudiante posterior a la diplomatura = postgraduate student.
    * estudiante proveniente de otra universidad = transfer student.
    * estudiante que ha completado los estudios secundarios = high school graduate, high school leaver.
    * estudiante que trabaja como auxiliar = student assistant, student aid.
    * estudiantes = school population, student body.
    * estudiante superdotado = gifted achiever.
    * estudiante trabajador = student worker.
    * estudiante universitario = university student, college student.
    * estudiante universitario de primer año = college freshman.
    * estudiante universitario de último curso = senior major.
    * estudiante universitario externo = off-campus university student.
    * estudiante universitario que abandona los estudios = college dropout.
    * estudiante virtual = e-learner (electronic learner).
    * generación de estudiantes = cohort of students.
    * habitación de residencia de estudiantes = dorm room.
    * intercambio de estudiantes = student exchange.
    * precio para estudiantes = student rate.
    * promoción de estudiantes = cohort of students.
    * representante de los estudiantes = student representative.
    * residencia de estudiantes = dormitory [dorm, -abbr.], dorm, students' home, hall of residence, residence hall, student residence.
    * sala de estudiantes = student common room.
    * servicios a los estudiantes = student services.
    * servicios de atención al estudiante = student services.
    * sindicato de estudiantes = students' union.

    * * *
    (de universidad) student, college student ( AmE), university student ( BrE); (de secundaria) (high-school) student ( AmE), (secondary school) pupil ( BrE)
    estudiante de Derecho/Inglés law/English student
    no trabaja, es estudiante she doesn't have a job, she's a student o she's at university ( o college etc)
    * * *

     

    estudiante sustantivo masculino y femenino ( de universidad) student;
    ( de secundaria) (high-school) student (AmE), (secondary school) pupil (BrE)
    estudiante mf student
    ' estudiante' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    carnet
    - expediente
    - también
    - tiempo
    - universitaria
    - universitario
    - aplazar
    - aplicado
    - aprobar
    - aprovechado
    - asiduo
    - bochar
    - carné
    - concienzudo
    - de
    - empollar
    - encaminar
    - flojo
    - licenciar
    - mechón
    - modelo
    - provecho
    - remitir
    - reprobar
    - torpedo
    English:
    advanced
    - appreciative
    - apt
    - erase
    - exchange
    - expel
    - go up
    - learner
    - mark
    - medic
    - medical
    - most
    - progress
    - scholar
    - senior
    - serious
    - student
    - undergraduate
    - year
    - fresh
    - junior
    - postgraduate
    - sophomore
    - under
    - -year
    * * *
    [de universidad, secundaria] student; [de primaria] schoolchild, pupil;
    una estudiante de Medicina a medical student;
    un bar de estudiantes a student bar
    * * *
    m/f student
    * * *
    : student
    * * *
    estudiante n student

    Spanish-English dictionary > estudiante

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