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University professors announce strike "indefinitely" from Wednesday

The Union of Higher Education Teachers (Sinpes) announced this Monday that teachers will go on strike from Wednesday, November 10, to demand salary increases, subsidies, better working conditions and funds for research.

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The information was transmitted by the secretary general of Sinpes, Eduardo Peres Alberto, stating that the strike will be "for an indefinite period" due to "lack of concrete answers" from the employers regarding their concerns.

"The strike on Wednesday will have a national dimension, because there are no concrete responses from the employer, which is the Government or the Ministry of Higher Education," said the teacher, in an interview with Lusa.

According to the union official, last week the teachers sat at the same table with the direction of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESCTI), "but there were no solutions and that is why our strike is declared and will leave already from the 10th".

Lack of health insurance, salary increase, better working conditions, improvement of infrastructure, lack of funds for scientific research and university extension, ongoing teacher training are among Sinpes' claims described in a claim sent to MESCTI on 12 May of 2018.

Eduardo Peres Alberto also noted that the ministerial body called a new meeting for Tuesday, but he does not believe that this meeting will lead to concrete solutions for the professors, "because in three years they have not managed to solve the problems".

"We granted the 60-day moratorium, they remained silent and a week before they really want to come to negotiate, so we cannot feed demagoguery, bad faith, we need to value higher education and that is our position", he stressed .

A source from MESCTI told Lusa that a new meeting with Sinpes is scheduled for this week, within the scope of its list of claims sent to that body, referring that both parties "continue in the negotiation process".

The President acknowledged, on the 5th of this month, that, "despite the efforts that have been undertaken", the "scarcity of teachers and administrative staff" to respond to the specific needs of each higher education institution in Angola is still a reality.

João Lourenço, who was speaking at the official opening ceremony of the academic year 2021/2022, assumed that "there is still a long way to go in increasing the number of full-time faculty and administrative staff".

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