Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH) is to transform around 235 primary schools into secondary schools, to address the deficit of the latter in the country, an official source announced on Thursday.
“[Primary education schools] will be transformed and requalified as a way to overcome the deficit of secondary schools” in the country, said José Colete, national director of school infrastructure and equipment.
Colete was speaking in Zambézia, in central Mozambique, during the laying of the foundation stone for the construction of four secondary schools there.
According to the same source, MINEDH is carrying out a survey to identify schools with the requirements for the transformation process, which demands “some pre-established criteria”.
The Ministry of Education will count on the support of partners to implement the plan, which is scheduled for 2022, Colete said.
Mozambique still has 7,484 classes taking place outdoors, and 28,269 classrooms in the country are made of grass and adobe (clay), according to data presented by MINEDH in September.
The Mozambican government and eight cooperation partners in July renewed a memorandum of understanding to improve the quality of education in the country.
Portugal, Germany, Canada, France, Finland, Italy, Ireland and the United Nations Children’s Fund contribute to Mozambican Education Sector Support Fund (FASE) and have been disbursing US$80 million (€68 million) per year for the education in Mozambique as part of an initiative inaugurated in 2002.
The new agreement signed this year aims to ensure access to quality education, and implement and consolidate a monitoring, evaluation and learning system “aligned with the plan based on results”.
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