"In the coming days the MEA will make a complaint to the Attorney General's Office, the Court of Auditors and other related institutions with a view to overseeing the resources and acts carried out by the university", said this Wednesday the executive secretary of the MEA, Joaquim da Costa Lutambi, in Luanda.
According to the association leader, in 2019, the Agostinho Neto university, in the registration period alone, raised over 21 million kwanzas and on this figure, he said, "nothing has been said and to date it is not clear for what purpose it was used.
"We are in 2020, the registrations have already started", he said, and "not to change" all the petitions sent to the Ministry of Finance to "regularize the emoluments until today have not been answered" and, he noted, "once again the registrations are running and nobody says anything".
The University Agostinho Neto has available 5310 vacancies for the academic year 2020, 215 more than the previous year, and the registrations that began this Wednesday run until 11 January 2020.
Among the 5310 places available, 4925 are for undergraduate courses and the remainder for bachelor's degree courses for teacher training for professional technical education.
For applications for the 45 courses taught in the nine organic units of the institution the applicant must pay 4000 kwanzas for one option or 6000 kwanzas for two.
Joaquim da Costa Lutambi, who was speaking at a press conference to evaluate the registration process at the Agostinho Neto University said the current charges "are illegal" due to the "lack of a law that regulates the prices of fees and registration" in the institution.
"Who could define the prices and taxes in the public university would be the Ministry of Finance. However, it has closed itself off by leaving university at the mercy and charging applicants and students a disproportionate and unfair price", he said, adding that the institution has turned students into "mere commodities.
For his part, the president of the MEA, Francisco Teixeira, said that the "vices of the previous year prevail in the subsystem of public university education in the country," suggesting to the executive not to go ahead with the intention of collecting tuition fees in public universities.
The head of the MEA, who classified the criminal complaint against the Agostinho Neto university as a "judicial battle," explained that the petition to the Attorney General's Office and other institutions aims, above all, "to put pressure on the authorities" to oversee the public university and stop the charges he says are illegal.
