The Ministry of Education wants to build around 3,000 classrooms in the country by next year to improve teaching conditions, an official source said Tuesday.
“The sector has a target of building this year and by next year over 3,000 classrooms,” said Lina Portugal, a representative of the Mozambican Ministry of Education and Human Development, quoted by Mozambique Television.
The official was speaking during a ceremony to celebrate World Teachers’ Day, which took place on Tuesday, during which the week for teachers in the country was also launched.
The infrastructures will be built throughout the country and the hygiene component is fundamental, stressed the representative of the Ministry of Education and Human Development.
Mozambique has 7,484 classes under the ground and there are 28,269 classrooms made of grass and adobe, according to figures presented by the Ministry of Education in September.
The Mozambican government and eight cooperation partners renewed in July a memorandum of understanding aimed at improving the quality of education in the country.
The new agreement signed this year aims to ensure access to quality education, implement and consolidate a monitoring, evaluation and learning system “aligned to the results-based plan”.
