Prime Minister calls for quality professional education

Maputo, 7 Jul (AIM) – One of the Mozambican government’s priorities is to ensure good quality professional, technical and vocational education, declared Prime Minister Benvinda Levi in Maputo on Tuesday.

Speaking as she swore into office Samuel Samo Gudo as the Chairperson of the National Education Authority (ANEP), Levi stressed that the professional education sub-system “must be able to train a technically qualified Mozambican work force endowed with a culture of work and an entrepreneurial spirit”.

ANEP, she added, must ensure that professional education “is integrated, coherent and flexible and responds to the current demands of the labour market”.

Levi also swore into office Lurdes Nacala as the General Director of the National Institute for the Development of Education (INDE), and urged her to continue “the efforts seeking to improve the mechanisms that define the guiding principles of curriculum planning” as well as for “the continual training of teachers”.

Sergio Cossa becomes the new General Director of the National Distance Learning Institute (INED), set up, Levi said, “to ensure the access of all citizens to education, regardless of their geographical location or social condition”.

She urged Cossa to take actions to guarantee “the continual functioning of the national network of distance learning centres and the harmonisation of technical innovation and educational principles, strengthening the mechanisms to guarantee quality, and to ensure a more inclusive and resilient educational system, oriented towards the challenges of today”.

Florencio Maulano becomes the new General Director of the National Research Fund (FNI). The Prime Minister urged Maulano to manage the FNI’s funds transparently and to make a careful selection of which projects it should finance.
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