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Mozambique: Guebuza Opens Education Biennial
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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
6 May 2008
Posted to the web 6 May 2008
Maputo
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Monday called for expanding educational opportunities beyond conventional schools, and to redefine education systems so that they can meet the challenges of globalization, and respond to the demand for training human capital.
Guebuza was speaking in Maputo at the opening session of the Eighth Biennial of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). This event is organised every two years and it brings together African Ministers of Education and Training, representatives of multilateral and bilateral development cooperation agencies, NGOs operating in education and a wide variety of academics and specialists. This year, the Biennial is concentrating on post-primary, professional and vocational education.
For Guebuza, the Biennial allows a diagnosis of the reality of education in Africa, and the potential for its growth, as well as a vision of the obstacles in its path.
Guebuza said that among the challenges facing Mozambique, like many other African countries, was shortage of secondary and technical schools that could meet the needs of expanding the system.
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Overcoming this shortage was a priority for the Mozambican government, he stressed, which had embarked upon a programme of rapid construction of new schools, curriculum reform, and an Integrated Programme for the Reform of Professional Education (PIREP).
The Tanzania Prime Minister, Mizengo Pinda, told the meeting that "education is everything in life", and explained the measures Tanzania has taken to increase access to primary and secondary education. The key to success lay in teaching more teachers so as to improve the teacher/pupil ratio.
. "Education cannot be separated from the central objectives of development", he insisted. "We should also think of the challenges that reach us from abroad, such as globalization and the advance of technology. Our education should also be aimed at accompanying these changes".
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