In a letter addressed to João Lourenço, the MEA asks that guidelines be given to the Ministers of Education, Higher Education and Finance so that changes in tuition fees are not made, given the "quite difficult socioeconomic context".
"We have an unemployment rate of around 32.5 percent, enough to see the galloping rise in prices at educational institutions as untimely", says the MEA.
On the other hand, he maintained, private education institutions do not meet the quality and qualification criteria set out in the basic law of the education and teaching system in force in Angola, so the MEA considers that the law is being violated.
He also adds that the State "does not have the capacity to guarantee schools for all and the respective gratuity", and it is private educational institutions that "put an end to this inability".
"The MEA calls for maximum rigor with regard to monitored prices in education and teaching institutions, under the terms of paragraph 3 of article 99 of the basic law of the education and teaching system", say the students.
For the MEA, "with the galloping rise in prices in education and private education institutions, both general and university", conditions are created for many more children and young people to stay out of the education and teaching system.
"It is the wish of the Movement of Angolan Students that this school year, which is about to start, we do not see more children outside the education and teaching system. It should be remembered that last school year we had a total of six thousand children outside the system of education and teaching", emphasizes the student association, asking the President to demand from the institutions "scrupulous compliance with the law and consequently the retreat of the increase in the value of tuition fees".
