The president of the Angolan Student Movement (MEA), Francisco Teixeira, pointed out the Escola Técnica de Saúde de Luanda, the Instituto Médio de Economia de Luanda, the Instituto Médio Industrial de Luanda and the Instituto Médio Politécnico Alda Lara as the "most corrupt".
"We understand that [these] are the most corrupt schools, where you can't study without paying anything. It's been almost five years since we've been denouncing these schools, because you can't study in them without paying between 200 thousand kwanzas and 300 thousand kwanzas", said the person in charge.
Francisco Teixeira promised to hold meetings, later this week, with the National Police and members of the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC), aiming to tighten the siege on allegedly corrupt schools, taking into account the upcoming 2024-2025 academic year.
"We are going to activate the SIC, the justice bodies so that there is further investigation and the vacancy traders are duly punished", assured Teixeira, when speaking at a press conference in Luanda.
The MEA leader, who was taking stock of the academic year that ended and the anticipation of the next one, which begins in September, pointed out several factors that, in his opinion, contributed to a "totally negative" balance.
Among these, he pointed out the high number of children and young people outside the education system due to lack of schools, the high number of dropouts due to the rise in the price of public transport and the lack of teachers, laboratories, libraries and school meals as situations that " tarnished" general education.
"We registered schools that ended the academic year without Portuguese language and mathematics teachers, especially in secondary education", highlighted Francisco Teixeira, lamenting the lack of a "serious commitment" and an effective budget for improving the quality of education.
Regarding the academic year that starts next September, Teixeira said he foresees numerous difficulties for parents and guardians in enrolling their students, as he understands that the closure of six schools in Luanda, for rehabilitation works, will limit vacancies.
He also expressed skepticism about the Ministry of Education's decree that determines exams for access to professional technical secondary education, having questioned the capacity of the ministerial entity to supervise the tests with clarity, impartiality and without acts of corruption.
"If the Ministry of Education does not have the capacity to provide exemption and better correction of grades, we will have more bureaucracy, more corruption and the strongest will always study and not the most intelligent", he stressed.
He also denounced that public schools, especially in Luanda, are being transformed into brothels at night, with the alleged connivance of security agents, who, due to lack of salaries, rent classrooms in exchange for a few kwanzas.
Regarding the higher education subsector, the president of the MEA gave a negative assessment of the academic year that just ended, mainly due to the lack of places, laboratories and scientific research.
