Civil protection: Education General Inspection (IGEC) investigates degrees not IPBeja.
From Monday, a team of inspectors General Education Inspection (IGEC) will settle in Beja Polytechnic to pass the comb through all degrees in Civil Protection.
According to the newspaper i, the revelation was made last Friday by the elected president of that institution of higher education, John Paul Trinity. "The inspection just called to inform me that the minister sent here from Monday", i told John Paul Trinity.
It was after learning that former national commander of the Civil Protection, VÃtor Vaz Pinto – Current district operational commander of the Algarve – He completed a degree and attended only three disciplines that Manuel Heitor decided to act.
According to the Polytechnic Beja, VÃtor Vaz Pinto completed his degree in Civil Protection after you have been assigned to equivalence "of 31 34 course subjects ". And these equivalences, "17 were from professional experience", the rest were for "post-secondary training courses", to which they are added others to have attended "a course at the Independent University", such as Environmental Education. The district commander of the Algarve attended the institution since the school year 2007/2008 and finished the course "in February 2009", the Higher School of Technology and Management, i also told the president of Beja Polytechnic.
The data were enough to raise suspicions about the legality of the degree which will now be considered by the General Education Inspection. And, similar to what happened in the case Lusophone and Castelo Branco Polytechnic, They must pass the scrutiny of the inspection all academic processes involving the assignment of equivalences in the Civil Protection course at the Polytechnic of Beja.
when i, John Paul remembered that Trindade, the date of degree Vaz Pinto, the law allowed the polytechnic schools have the autonomy to decide on degrees. "The presidents did not know anything, not passed them and only a few years ago is that this information is centralized ", Frisian.
According to the order for appointment of Vaz Pinto, the master has leadership roles in the Civil Protection from 2004. Was advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs, António Figueiredo Lopes, for seven months in the Durão Barroso Government. Later, between 9 March 2011 and December 2012, took command of the national relief operations – the same functions as the former commander Rui Esteves – substituting, na height, Gil Martins was suspended by MAI after knowing that was being investigated by the prosecution misuse of funds, even ending up being sentenced to four years and six months with suspended sentence.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
Editor's Note: John Paul was elected president of Trinity IPBeja, in 15 May 2017, date on which the process was sent to the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES), to be approved by Manuel Heitor. Because there was an appeal in respect of John Paul's election Trinity, lack the approval of MCTES, so that the teaching can take possession ESTIG.
Photo credit: Eduardo Martins
