Africa-Press – Mozambique. Mozambique’s largest high education institution, the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), graduates only about a third of the students admitted each year.
According to the UEM vice-chancellor, Manuel Guilherme Júnior, speaking in Maputo on Thursday during the presentation of the institution’s 2024 annual report, this pattern is repeated at the end of each training cycle.
The report, which points to the graduation of students from the university system as the highest point of the teaching-learning mission, reveals that the evolution of the graduation rate over the last five years (2020/2024) has fluctuated significantly, with a downward trend.
“In 2020, the university admitted 5,422 students, but only 1,440 graduated. In 2021, 5,050 students were admitted, but only 1,349 graduated. In 2022, the year with the highest number of admissions in the period analysed, with 5,649 students, only 1,581 graduated. In 2023, despite a reduction in admissions (5,150), there was an increase in the number of graduates, with 1,834 students, the highest figure in recent years. For 2024, 5,132 students were admitted and 1,514 graduated”, reads the document.
The report points out that between 2020 and 2024, the UEM admitted an average of more than 5,000 students a year, but only just over 1,500 completed their courses each year, leaving over 3,000 students a year behind.
“Looking at the training cycle, the UEM admitted 5,422 students in 2020, but by the end of the cycle in 2024, only 1,514 had completed their courses. These indicators should lead the student community and the educational institution itself to reflect on this panorama and its internal dynamics”, says the document.
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