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Mozambique: Government to Inspect Quality in Higher Education


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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)

12 December 2007
Posted to the web 12 December 2007

Maputo

The Mozambican government is to improve its inspection activities in higher education institutions in order to ensure good quality of the new graduates, so that they can face present and future challenges, declared government spokesperson and Deputy Education Minister Luis Covane on Tuesday.

He told reporters that, to this end, the Cabinet meeting earlier in the day approved a decree to set up a System of Higher Education Appraisal, Accreditation and Quality Guarantee.

"This decree aims at regulating the quality of higher education in Mozambique by establishing norms, mechanisms and coherent and articulated procedures of appraisal and accreditation to bring our higher education institutions into line with regional and global standards", a set of government minutes from the meeting said.

Covane added 'what we are going to do is to see what is happening in our universities. The idea is to promote good quality. This is not a punitive measure".

He said that the new system will inspect the state of infrastructures, laboratories and equipment in the universities, as well as the competence of the lecturers, among other aspects that are essential to ensure good quality of education.

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"We need to have very clear references about what is happening in every course offered in those institutions so that we may help improve our investments", said Covane. "The state has the obligation to collect information from higher education institutions because, in the final analysis, it is the state that is responsible for them".



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