8 April 2008
Luanda — The second phase of the construction of the high school teachers training centre in Negage district, northern Uige province, which started in December 2007 to improve teachers' qualifications, will finish in August this year, Angop learned.
This second phase of the construction of the undertaking with a capacity for 1,050 students includes two hostels with 50 beds, six twinned residences for teachers and a multi-purpose play ground.
The project being developed over an area of 600 square metres, includes 10 classrooms, each with a capacity for 35 students, in three shifts, a conference hall with 250 seats and a livestock service area.
The first phase of the programme started in January 2007 and built 10 classrooms, five temporary bedrooms, a refectory, a teachers' room, an administrative area with seven offices, six toilets, an industrial kitchen and a laundry.
The head of the local education department, Salvador Tito Zage, told Angop the institution has already been working with 90 students enrolled since the beginning of this year, because of its importance in training youths.
The source who would not mention the amount of money invested in the programme, said that the undertaking relied on 170 workers' contributions, mainly local young people and falls under the Government's Public Investment Programme for the 2007/2008 period.
The institution, the first of its kind in the region designed to train staffs in social education area will be tasked in future with helping implement social projects in communities.
With a total of 26,000 students enrolled in this academic year, Negage district, located 39 kilometres of Uige province capital city, has 56 schools of primary, secondary and third levels.
The official number of controlled teachers is 846.
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