Africa-Press – Angola. Three hundred and 46 new classrooms, resulting from the construction of 30 schools, will allow the insertion of more students in the next academic year in Cuanza-Norte.
The provincial director of Education, Manuel Lourenço, said yesterday in Ndalatando that the new schools will allow 25,000 students to be placed in the education system, out of a total of 196,554 students, including those already enrolled.
Among the new schools are also five high-school polytechnics, built in the municipalities of Samba-Caju, Cazengo and Cambambe. “The middle institutes of Cambambe and Cazengo will teach courses in Accounting and Management, Electricity and Mechanics, never before taught in public schools in Cuanza-Norte”, he said.
For this academic year, starting next September, Cuanza-Norte, he explained, has 470 new teachers, selected in the last public tender in the sector, joining the other 4,917, making a total of 5,387 teachers.
The governor of Cuanza-Norte, Adriano Mendes de Carvalho, said that the Education sector deserves special attention from the local government, as it is a crucial branch in obtaining qualified labor in the future.
The schools, built within the framework of the Integrated Plan for Intervention in Municipalities (PIIM), also gave Cuanza-Norte the possibility of having a high school with 30 rooms, the largest in the province.
With ten municipalities, Cuanza-Norte has an estimated population of 443,386 inhabitants.
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