This study investigates the experiences of low-income students in Portuguese higher education, focusing on universities in peripheral regions. Despite policies aimed at widening access since the 1980s, inequalities persist. The research examines whether families with greater social, cultural, and economic capital are disproportionately represented in higher education relative to their presence in Portuguese soc...
In an era where social responsibility is increasingly embedded in organisational strategy, this study scrutinises the infusion of social responsibility into the strategic underpinnings of non-profit organisations. Specifically, it aims to assess the influence of social responsibility initiatives on the organisational support and organisational identification of NGO employees to verify the impact of social respo...
Framework: Demographic changes, which have taken on a new paradigm after the COVID-19 pandemic, have led researchers to approach diversity with a focus on gaining a competitive advantage. Therefore, one of the objectives is to obtain knowledge regarding the new generations in the changing landscape of education, which requires attention to the needs of teaching a multicultural audience (Unruh & McCord, 2010). W...
Social Work is an academic discipline that promotes social development and change, social cohesion, empowerment, and human improvement. The values of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility, and respect for diversity are essential to social work. Embedded in the social sciences and humanities but endowed with its own conceptual framework, social work connects people with social structures to res...
One of the main features of Social Work as a field of science is that training and practice have always been articulated, as one inevitably impacts on the other. Thus, the Bologna guidelines have not implied the same deep adjustments as in other disciplines, since social work has always been closely aligned with prevailing practices. Its definition as a scientific field implies that social work is both a practi...
A ação social no ensino superior português é empreendida através dos serviços de ação social das instituições de ensino superior públicas. A candidatura, estudo dos processos e a atribuição de bolsas aos estudantes candidatos a esta prestação social, é integralmente realizada numa plataforma eletrónica de gestão centralizada, cujos resultados podem ser dados para alguns processos sem intervenção humana. Perante...
O estudo pretende analisar o impacto das alterações ao regulamento de atribuição das bolsas de estudos a estudantes do ensino superior, com especial enfoque na Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), no período compreendido entre o ano de 2010 a 2015. Modificações nos procedimentos de análise para a atribuição das bolsas de estudos são identificadas no estado da arte e trazem consequências para os e...