Luanda – At least 67.600 classrooms for pre-school were built by the Government from 2018 to 2022, within the scope of the Pre-school Education Development Programme.
The construction of these infrastructures is part of the goals set by the Government, in the educational domain, in the period 2018/2022 with the aim of increasing the enrolment of 1.3 million children of school age, that is, pre-school and initiation children.
In order to increase the number of children between zero and four years of age in the education and teaching system, through the Pre-School Education Development Programme, the Government has also invested in the construction of more classrooms in community centres, nurseries and kindergartens.
In this scope, more than 26,700 classrooms were built in the country, in a strategy of public classrooms and public-private partnership classrooms.
In the same 2018/2022 period, 163 new schools were built, corresponding to 12,800 classrooms, built with the support of development partners.
Added to this is the creation of 739 libraries in primary schools, colleges, high schools and school complexes in the provinces of Bengo, Bié, Cabinda, Kwanza Sul, Huambo, Huíla, Lunda Norte, Lunda Sul, Moxico, Namibe, Uíge and Zaire.
Secondary education
The government also focused its attention on the infrastructures for 1st and 2nd cycle secondary education, as well as for technical-vocational schools.
For both levels of secondary education, 18,730 new classrooms were projected, and others are nearing completion.
Increasing the number of technical-vocational high managers trained by the technical-vocational education system is another important and current challenge, with the number of graduates reaching 46,500 students.
Professionals in the areas of electricity, mechanics, civil construction, architecture and projects, electronics and telecommunications, cold systems, automation and mechatronics; in agriculture, poultry and livestock, and other food areas, are regularly absorbed by the large, structuring programmes and projects developed by the government throughout the country.
The construction of infrastructures for the literacy of adolescents, youths and adults is also one of the goals achieved during the last five years of governance, whose objective is to reduce the backwardness of this population.
Higher Education
New investments were made in this sector, with emphasis on the construction of seven new Higher Education Institution (HEI) infrastructures.
Approximately 51,000 students graduated, a number below the established goal, due to the fact that there were no graduates in 2020, due to the constraints imposed by Covid-19.
In this education system, 18,500 internal undergraduate scholarships were awarded, resulting in a 74% degree of execution when compared to the five-year target established in the 2018-2022 NDP.
In the scientific research chapter, 59 scientific research projects were funded, resulting in a degree of execution of 27.06% when compared to the five-year target set in the 2018-2022 PDN.
In addition, 28 scientific research laboratories were rehabilitated and equipped, seven of which in 2021.
Source: Angola Press News Agency
