25 July 2007
Luanda — Angolan deputy minister of Education for the Educative Reform, Pinda Simão Wednesday said, here, that distance learning is one of the tools that will allow the creation of better education and training opportunities in Africa.
The Angolan official was speaking in a press conference at "4 de Fevereiro" International Airport before embarking for Lesotho, where he will attend on July 27 at Conference of Education Ministers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and which will have distance learning as the main topic.
According to the deputy minister, this type education already exists in Africa, and at the moment law entities are working in order to standardise this system.
He referred that, with the qualification of distance learning students of SADC countries might complete their education and conciliate the various approaches, bearing in mind that each country has its education system.
"We will seek to find that which is basic across the region", he said.
Participants to the Lesotho meeting will, apart from distance learning and qualification framework, analyse the activities carried out in their respective countries.
Regarding activities carried out by his sector, the deputy minister informed that the Angolan government is making efforts in terms of expanding the schooling network and improve the quality of education, so as to overcome illiteracy and end with the shortage of cadres in Africa.
For the effect, he stressed, the Education Ministry is working in order to expand and develop research in the technical professional and superior education system.
"In Angola technical education is being generalised countrywide, because our goal it to have at least one or two technical education institution in each province", he referred.
The Education deputy minister, who represents Minister Burity da Silva in the Lesotho Conference, is expected back home next Monday.
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