For the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), Angola's history is written "in a partisan perspective whose content reports facts based on non-national, but foreign and partisan principles".
"Today, our students know more about Fidel de Castro de Cuba than Agostinho Neto, Holden Roberto and Jonas Savimbi. Very few students know the great historical and heroic figures of Angolan nationalism", said the 'minister' of Education of the " Shadow Government" of the biggest opposition party, Manuel Correia.
The "weaknesses that currently exist" in the primary, secondary and university education system, "even put the sovereignty of the country at risk," he said.
The official, who was speaking at a press conference on the state of education and teaching in Angola, considered that the education sector "faces structural problems, from the lack of acceptable quality in the initial classes to the sale of places for access" to the system of teaching.
"The problem is not limited to primary education, but it extends to secondary education, without sparing higher education. The situation really jeopardizes the future of the country and the citizens as a whole, because the students who are being malformed today they will be teachers tomorrow", he pointed out.
Mathematics, biology, physics and chemistry courses are said to have been closed in professional technical education in Angola due to the "lack of laboratories" in teacher training schools, according to Manuel Correia, who quoted the Secretary of State for Education, Gildo Matias.
The Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation announced, on Tuesday, the "discontinuation" of courses in pedagogy, psychology and philosophy, for the training of teachers, as they "failed to respond to the needs" of the education system.
According to the Secretary of State for Higher Education, Eugénio Alves da Silva, the courses "no longer respond from the point of view of profile and from the point of view of employability to the needs of the education system".
The executive in taking this decision, noted the 'minister' of UNITA's "Shadow Government", "reveals total ignorance of the importance and purpose of education and teaching in the life of man and society in general."
"Hence the reason for distorting teaching curricula with the aim of maintaining the people's ignorance, in order to better dominate them and, at the same time, conserve power," said Manuel Correia.
"Politically speaking, the MPLA did not add anything to the education of Angolans, on the contrary, it took away from it all aggregating values", he stressed.
The UNITA politician also considered that "nothing justifies, absolutely nothing, the withdrawal of these courses under the pretext of the non-existence of laboratories", since "the laboratories are built, the technicians for the laboratories are trained".
Manuel Correia also criticized the recent presidential decrees that authorized the channeling of "millions of kwanzas" for the construction of roads, questioning "whether it is so difficult to allocate money for the acquisition of laboratories".
"UNITA thinks it is extremely necessary to create policies and methods that aim to improve the quality of education, both in the urban area and in the rural environment, to improve investment in education, which includes the enhancement of staff, salary incentives", he concluded the UNITA politician.
