Reviews

Nobel school in Lagoa is owned and managed by Globeducate. A company based in Madrid and ultimately owned by two private equity firms based in the US. The bottom line is profit. There is scant disregard for the education and well being of the children. The teachers try hard but they are poorly paid, without health insurance or a pension, so motivation is low.

The school is now on its 5th headmaster in 4 years. This tells you everything!

They have built a new section to expand the school, to chase more $$$ but have left the existing facilities to rot. No sports to speak about, dreadful theatre room, poor IT facilities, no shade, unsafe sports facilities. The list goes on and on.

Numbers are dropping and the owners need to wake up.

Our son attended Nobel Almancil campus at the secondary school. We were given promises of engaging teaching, excursions, focus on EQ, critical thinking, etc. None of these came to fruition. Class sizes are rather large at 22 or 23 maximum.

Kids in my son's classes throw paper airplanes, are disruptive, talk while the teacher is teaching. Their discipline includes: writing names on the board, having kids write sentences "I will not....", sending kids into the halls for bad behavior. No seeming interest in the underlying causes of the bad behavior, much of which likely has to do with extremely poor teaching and bored kids. Kids behave well when they are interested and engaged.

Teaching is outdated: teachers lecture, students take notes. The heads will tell you otherwise, but they only visit the classes for short 10-minute intervals. There is no united methodology that all teach... read full review