In a statement, to which the Lusa agency had access, the entity states that AIESPA affiliates are deprived of their sources of financing, that is, the monthly installments of tuition fees, and without receiving any concrete response from State agencies for the advanced proposals, in the sense of "blurring the negative impacts resulting from the covid-19 pandemic".
AIESPA informs that the decision to suspend the employment relationship with teachers and non-teachers was taken at an extraordinary general meeting, after the government decree prohibiting the charging of tuition fees, to prevent further debt from accumulating, taking into account that there is no short-term solutions for the resumption of teaching and academic activities in the country.
In this sense, it is added in the note, "as long as possible", only the minimum number of employees will be kept for the treatment of administrative issues, since if, fees from tuition fees "it will become impossible to remunerate them indefinitely ".
"It is, therefore, with enormous concern and feeling of impotence that, under Decree 201/20, there are a total of 57 private and public-private institutions of higher education unable to ensure the work of 8883 teachers and 4677 non-teaching workers" , he says.
These workers, "without any work activity, will certainly experience the same economic difficulties and social problems related to the physical and mental health of the more than 32 percent of Angolans who are already unemployed or underemployed", adds the Association.
This statement follows others already made individually by private educational institutions, namely the Catholic University of Angola and the Elisângela Filomena school, the oldest in Luanda, announcing the suspension of employment contracts due to financial difficulties.
Classes have been suspended in Angola since March this year, due to the covid-19 pandemic, but by July 60 percent of tuition fees were being paid, a decision that was changed this month, with the suspension of payment until the resumption of school. academic and academic activity.
