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Angola: Peace Leads to Expansion of School System - Deputy Minister
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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
5 April 2008
Posted to the web 7 April 2008
Luanda
Angola's Education Deputy Minister for Educative Reform, Pinda Simão, said Friday, here, that with the six years of peace there was an expansion of school system countrywide as well as an increase of education staff from 2,3 million in 2002, to over 5 million in 2007.
Mr Simão, said so in light of the peace benefits in the education sector, stated that with the end of the armed conflict, it was possible to employ at least 71,000 new teachers, and leading the higher education to other regions of the country.
The minister voiced positively the previous number, as the country's pyramidal structure of the Angolan education points that 25 percent of the population should be included in educative system this year.
"In 2008, according to data, the public education will have at least 5 million students, if associated with the private sector statistic the figure can reach over 6 million pupils", the Deputy Minister stressed.
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According to him, the peace also enabled an increase in the investment of the sector which resulted in the construction of 26,000 classrooms across the national territory as well as the educative reform, started in 2004.
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