Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Maria do Rosário Bragança, highlighted, this Friday, the advances achieved by the sector, in the last 21 years, despite the schooling rate not being satisfactory.
According to the official, who was speaking at the opening ceremony of the second National Forum of University Students of Angola, the current rate of schooling and higher education is low.
“Our job is to manage to raise the rate, approximately, of the milestone established by the African Union in its Agenda 2063, in order, at that time, to achieve a gross enrollment rate of 50 percent”, stated the minister.
However, he highlighted that the conquest of peace, in 2002, allowed the construction of more university infrastructures and the significant increase of public and private institutions of higher education, throughout the country.
Six years later, he said, higher education institutions in Angola went from five to 13, teachers from 988 to three thousand 128 and students from 12 thousand 566 to 87 thousand 196.
Official data indicate that, until 2011, there were 38 higher education institutions across the country and at least 140,000 students were registered.
Despite the growth registered so far, he continued, the Angolan government remains committed to the massification of higher education in the country.
On his turn, the president of the Council of the National Movement of University Youths of Angola (MNJUA), José Sequeira, said that the organization is attentive to the social and political dynamics in course in the country, considering it opportune to reinforce the position of the movement, within the scope of strategic partnership with the Angolan State, within the student community.
Under the motto “Pensar Angola, university youth a solid base for sustainable development”, the event was attended by students from the country’s 18 provinces.
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