Luanda – Minister of State for Social Sector Carolina Cerqueira Thursday reiterated the Executive commitment to education with focus on construction of infrastructure, training and upgrading the skills of the staff.
Carolina Cerqueira stressed the implementation of the Integrated Programme for Intervention in Municipalities (PIIM) which, according to her, will provide more than 800 schools of various teaching levels in the country.
“Effort has been made to tackle concerns such as low-performing students and gender equality to reduce the huge difference between boys and girls in secondary school level”, she said.
The performance rate in girls increased to about 60% in the latest five years”, the official told an International Conference on cooperation among the Portuguese Speaking countries, sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
She said that the average years of schooling is only 5,2, which is a reduced value, but on its simplicity hides a very high effort made by the Angolan Executive.
The official highlighted that in order to counter the low quality, the Executive is committed as well to the improvement of teaching staff, through training and upgrading actions as well as the inclusion of news teachers.
As for the cooperation with other countries, she said 66 Angolan graduates are attending Master´s degree in Minho University (Portugal) in pre-school education method of the primary and secondary education.
According to the official data, over 10 million students from general education were reported in 2020 school year. Of this figure, two million enrolled for the first time in education system.
National Teaching System has 210,674 teachers, 30,000 of whom were employed in the last three years.
The public network comprises 18,297 schools, making a total of 167,032 classrooms.
Source: Angola Press News Agency