Peace Design Table # 05 Mission and Development Path of the Educational System

IAYSP-Angola organized Peace Design Table # 05 Mission and Development Path of the Educational System  on December 6, 2020.

With the theme Mission and Development path of the education system Ambassador Alda Manuel and her 10 peacemakers reflected on the trajectory of the education system in Angola, the present and the future of education in Angola.

These main points were discussed:

• How can the education system in Angola be improved?,
• Is it possible to include national languages ​​in Angola’s education system?,
• What can we do as young people to improve our education quality?

Education challenges:

• Education without quality
• lack of qualified teachers
• educational, political and infrastructure strategies poorly adapted to the realities of Angola
• insufficient investment in resources (OGE)
• low investment in human capital
• little inclusive education
• Collision between culture / tradition and the education system
• lack of continuous training to overcome situations involving rural communities
• lack of training schools for learning national languages
• lack of supporting bibliography in general, and specifically in national languages ​​used for education, corruption.

Solutions:

• leadership and sustainability in science
• betting on well-equipped theoretical and practical spaces
• pedagogical, academic and training of teachers
• change of the school calendar in the countryside according to the sowing time and the harvest period
• government investing in rural communities with the implementation of agricultural industries, farms and boosting rural business, rejecting corruption, etc.