TECHNOLOGY AND ACADEMIC PLANS OF LAW SCHOOLS IN PORTUGAL

Students enrolled in Portuguese higher education in the Law courses of the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school year had 15 different courses of study: five in public universities (two of them with post-work placements), two in non-state public education and eight in private universities. More than 1400 public education posts were filled with high average of the last student placed. Although these students have good grades of admission, they lack some skills, particularly in terms of technologies and of their good use, as university students and later as law graduates. Students coming to university bring little technological knowledge from secondary education since curricula are very poor in this area. In Portugal there is a curriculum in secondary education but not all students were contemplated and often what is taught in these high school subjects is related to internet, blogs or websites (usually taught in a very light way). Usually nothing about office tools, often seen as a poor relative of technology, when in reality they are very powerful means of working (and not only). Although most of the students were born in a digital age, there are many difficulties in terms of basic computer applications from the perspective of the user. In fact, they live surrounded by technology, they use technology to communicate and have fun, and often use digital office applications, but they do so in a very poor and incorrect way. To meet these needs, some of the universities have included in their curriculum some unit’s curricula that aim to provide students with the knowledge and skills to handle the technologies and make a good use of them. This article is part of a study that portrays the technological knowledge of students when they enter a law course, the technological teaching/learning within a course plan in higher education in a law school and after attending technological units provided within a degree, which is the knowledge that the orders intend that the candidates have, as well as the technological needs of the professionals of the different careers that have in common the degree in law. In this article, a study is made of the course plans of the first cycle school year existing in Portugal in the two academics year 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 and list the curricular units that deal with technological concepts and tools. A comparison is made between these different curricular units and suggestions are made for the transmission of computer knowledge to future law graduates.


INTRODUCTION
The Law course in Portugal always has many candidates and places. Courses require high averages (numerus clausulus) but do not impose prerequisites. It turns out that students upon entering a law course do not have a high level of user-level technology knowledge that they need in their professional future: "The generalized view that 18-25 year olds are experts in technology may not be the most correct "and" It is clear that young people of the generation Z enter the university with a lot of technology, but with very little knowledge of MsOffice. It will be necessary to provide these skills to the students so they can do their academic work and know how to use them in future work life. " [1] [2]. The university will be a way to prepare students who enter secondary education for professional life and technology is a very important tool in the life of a professional in the area of law.

LAW SCHOOLS IN PORTUGAL
The Law course in Portugal is taught in 15 different universities, two of which distinguish the vacancies for "normal" students and post-employment students (University of Lisbon and University of Minho) according to the Directorate General of Higher Education [3]. Considering the last two academic years and according to the Type of University Higher Education: in 2016 were placed 2441 (Public 1426 and Private 1015) and in 2017 entered 2558 students (Public 1413 and Private 1145). There are also students who enter the Portuguese Catholic University that do not provide entrance data. Portugal has a numerus clasulus system in which each University can choose the classification formula of the access. As an example, to enter the Law course of the University of Porto, "Currently, the access requirements are: to be the owner of the 12th. Year and carry out the entrance tests (Portuguese or History) " [4]. They do not define prerequisites and the minimum access grade is 120 points in 200. The average is calculated taking into account the grades of secondary education and one of the access exams, in this case being 40%.
The average admission rates (we will only consider those of public universities) differ according to the university of choice: between 135.5 at the University of Lisbon (post-employment regime) in the first phase of 2016 and 17.2 at the University of Porto and second phase.

TECHNOLOGY, LAW SCHOOLS, PORTUGAL
By reviewing the course plans (and sending email to coordinator / course director to confirm the information), we find that very few courses provide curriculum units with IT content. In

CONCLUSIONS
Although we have verified in other previous articles that the students enter the degrees in Law without technological knowledge that are very important for their future career, few Universities that offer in curricula curricular units with computer science and technology. Interestingly there are more and more University that include technical English and German technical in their plans of law course.
In this article, we find that in 2016-2017 only four courses presented a technological curricular unit in their plans, and in 2017-2018 this number dropped to three.
In an upcoming article we will write about the presence of these curricular units in Universities of reference worldwide, as well as what the knowledge that a professional of the area of Law needs when entering the world of work. Finally, we will make several recommendations that we hope will be taken into consideration by those who draw up course plans in law.