23 November 2008
Benguela — With view to enrol about 288,000 children into the academic system, 6,666 classrooms for the primary education shall be built in the next four years, in the southern Benguela province, announced on Saturday here the provincial governor, Armando da Cruz Neto.
The official, who was speaking during the main event of the Teacher's Day (November 22), explained that the province has a total of 606,086 students, therefore a priority of the provincial government.
For this purpose the middle-term programme of 2009/2012 includes the construction and equipping of secondary schools at every district headquarters, rehabilitation and equipping of 1,518 classrooms, in replacement of the 1,612 temporary classrooms by definitive and the construction of nine residents for students.
Armando da Cruz Neto revealed that the education sector aims at enrolling around 7,000 new teachers who will join the other 20,629 existing in the whole region.
Education entities are preparing the implementation, as from 2009, of the steering plan for the training of teachers, which guarantees the training of new teachers and upgrading those already in the system.
November 22, a date marking the Teacher's Day, is being commemorated this year under the motto "teachers at the centre of the attentions", was established during the opening of the Literacy Campaign of 1976, in Luanda, at a ceremony presided over by the first President of the Republic and founder of the Angolan Nation, António Agostinho Neto.
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