10 January 2008
Maputo — The Pedagogic University, which is Mozambique's degree level teacher training institution, and the government's Integrated Professional Education Reform Programme (PIREP) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding on the training of teachers and managers of professional education institutions.
The head of the Executive Secretariat for the professional education reform (COREP), Zeferino Martins, said that the agreement is an inter-institutional memorandum, which seeks to cover the priority areas for the reform, but each of the two parties involved must now identify the actions to be undertaken
For Martins, there were two main challenges to be faced. The first was to train highly qualified personnel who could deal with the problems emerging from the regional integration of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and the second was to endow the rural population with basic technological knowledge, so that they could improve their living conditions, and produce more goods of higher quality.
"Competition within SADC requires a developed economy, which in turn needs enterprising and highly competitive people", said Martins. "That's why we have the challenge of producing highly skilled cadres".
The two institutions will borrow from each other's expertise, using their contacts, and whatever ability they each have to access funds, in order to maximize benefit for the goal of reforming professional education.
The Vice-Chancellor of the Pedagogic University, Rogerio Utui, declared that the institution was committed to the government's project to turn the rural districts into poles of development.
"For us the priority is to look at this national objective, and the training of teachers for technical education is a way of contributing to this", he said. "In the University we already have courses that train people in computer science, electronics, accounts and auditing, and now we want to make a qualitative jump and institutionalize these courses".
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