15 November 2008
Luanda — Angola's Education minister, Burity da Silva, who is attending since Friday, in Lisbon, Portugal, the Extraordinary Meeting of Ministers of Education and Culture of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP), presented at the event the main government measures to improve the national education system.
Speaking during the event, the Angolan official mentioned that apart from the constraints faced by the sector, resulting from the war that devastated Angola until April 2002, various programmes are underway and will contribute to the expected future.
Among them, the Education minister stressed the work of rehabilitating, building and equipping schooling institutions at all levels of education, the adoptionof educational actions to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, creation of an environmental education programme and another of inter-cultural education.
Burity da Silva also highlighted the implementation, from 2008 to 2015, of a Teachers Training Master Plan, which shall govern every projects of training human resources for the primary and secondary education and which involves an initial and continuous training of teachers, school headmasters, pedagogic inspectors and supervisors.
The progressive expansion of the school meal, as a nutritional complement for poverty-stricken school children and as a strategy to reduce the rates of repeating and abandoning school, the continuous expansion of special education and continuing with the
curricular reform in the general, normal and technical-professional education were also quoted.
The Angolan official also spoke on the free supply of textbooks for compulsory education, which in the current academic year reached 64,5 percent, apart from the slowly creation of school libraries.
Burity da Silva also informed about the goals of the Education Reform, which is underway since 2002, and aims at reducing, during each academic year, the number of children who are still out of the education system, notwithstanding that the annual average rate of enrolling new students is already fixed at 18,59 percent.
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