The Regional Secretary for Education and Training was in Ponta Delgada on Tuesday heard by the Commission for Social Affairs of the Regional Legislative Assembly on the implementation of the Education Programme for Entrepreneurship in Azorean schools and the amendments to the rules for the admission of Pre-school, Basic Education and Secondary School teachers.  
Maria Lina Mendes conveyed the satisfaction of the Regional Government regarding the first draft resolution as it will encourage an entrepreneurship culture among Azorean youngsters.
According to the Regional Secretary, the Education Programme for Entrepreneurship will provide Azorean youngsters with an opportunity to develop their initiative and decision skills so that they may better adapt to the current economic context. 
In order to establish this programme, Azorean schools must be provided with specialised teachers. Hence, a training course for teachers, focusing on the students’ personal and social development, will take place in September, explained Marina Lina Mendes.
The document on the admission of teachers, which had been submitted by CDS-PP, was rejected by the Regional Government. 
The Regional Secretary for Education and Training said that she does not agree with the proposal insofar as it stipulated a six-year period for the teachers working in the schools of the “Cohesion Islands.”
She also mentioned that this change might bring pedagogical implications in addition to creating the false idea that teachers would have their position secured; however if they desired to be transferred to another school, they would not be able to do so before completing the six-year period.
The admission of teachers in the Azores is relatively stable. Of the teachers placed in schools for a three-year period, only twenty percent have chosen not to continue working in the same school, stressed Lina Mendes.