葡萄牙教育部长费尔南多·亚历山大因推行考试评分数字化改革而陷入风波，引发学生、教师和家长的广泛抗议，呼声日益高涨要求其下台。[1]数字化系统在实施中出现严重故障，约26000份考卷受到软件或参数化错误影响，导致超过18000个成绩被更改。[1]
面对这场混乱，已有超过20000名学生申请重新评估，这一数字是去年的三倍，而每份重新评估需由学生支付25欧元（21英镑）的费用。[1]与此同时，约19000人联署请愿要求作废今年所有成绩。[1]上周五，数百名学生、家长、教师及反对党议员在教育部外举行抗议活动。[1]
民调数据反映了公众的不满情绪，七成葡萄牙人对政府表示不满，并将此次考试混乱列为主要不满原因。[1]教育部随后表示，受软件错误影响的学生不会获得低于及格分的成绩。[1]
Portugal's Education Minister Fernando Alexandre faces intensifying calls to resign following a major breakdown in the digitalization of exam grading that has thrown the country's education system into turmoil.[1] The software-based system, introduced to streamline the marking of national exams, encountered severe technical failures including lost test papers, missing pages, poor-quality scanned images, and inaccessible grading platforms.[1] Approximately 26,000 exam papers were affected by software or parameterization errors, with over 18,000 grades subsequently altered.[1]
The scale of disruption has sparked widespread public outcry from students, teachers, parents, and opposition lawmakers.[1] More than 20,000 students have applied for grade reassessment—triple the number from the previous year—while approximately 19,000 people have signed a petition demanding that all grades from this year be annulled.[1] Students must pay 25 euros (21 pounds) per reassessment request.[1] Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the education ministry to voice their anger over the crisis.[1] According to polling data, seventy percent of Portuguese citizens express dissatisfaction with the government, with the exam chaos cited as a primary grievance.[1] The education ministry has stated that students affected by software errors will not receive grades below a passing mark.[1]