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National policy · Quality assurance and accreditation · Portugal

Portugal's A3ES quality agency recruits students for evaluator pool until 30 November

A3ES, Portugal's higher education assessment and accreditation agency, is taking online applications from students until 30 November 2026 for its student-evaluator pool.

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Why it matters: Students interested in joining the A3ES student-evaluator pool can submit online applications to the agency until 30 November 2026.

A3ES (Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior, Portugal's agency for the assessment and accreditation of higher education) said it is running an online recruitment process from 1 to 30 November 2026.

According to A3ES, the process is aimed at students who are interested in joining the agency's pool of student evaluators.

The agency said the pool will serve as the basis for selecting students to sit on its External Evaluation Committees (CAE, Comissões de Avaliação Externa).

Editor’s view

Richard Davies, Policy and Finance Editor

Students interested in the A3ES student-evaluator pool, which the agency will use as the basis for choosing student members of its External Evaluation Committees, have until 30 November 2026 to apply online.

What to watch

  • The online application window for the A3ES student-evaluator pool closes on 30 November 2026.

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