The non-payment of teachers' overtime has already led the National Teachers' Association (ANAPRO) to discredit almost all the institutions through which it had hoped to see its concerns resolved. After several rounds of dialogue with various stakeholders, ANAPRO held a highly unproductive meeting in Maputo today...
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Around 1.6 million students sit final exams
At least 1.6 million boarding students will sit the final exams for the 6th, 10th and 12th grades in the country's primary and secondary schools as the 2023 school year draws to a close. Quoted by "Notícias" Silvestre Dava, the national director of Secondary Education, said that everything is being done to ensure that the process runs smoothly and...
Errors in the 6th grade book: PGR requests an audit of the contracts
Almost a year after the scandal over the errors in 6th grade textbooks, the Attorney General's Office (PGR), in a press release seen by MZNews, wants an internal audit of the contracts signed. The PGR press release states that "as is already in the public domain, at the beginning of the school year,...
Education. Government will hire six thousand teachers this year
The Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH) expects that just over 6,000 teachers will be hired in the current school year, of which more than 3,000 will be distributed among the different primary schools and the rest for secondary education. The information was revealed in Maputo by MINEDH spokesperson Feliciano Mahalambe. "We hope...
Free distribution: Schoolbooks are starting to arrive
The National Education System's free textbooks have already started arriving in the country, two weeks before the start of the 2023 school year. There are a total of 18,786,900 textbooks for all primary education, both monolingual and bilingual, and so far around five million have been received and are in the process of being distributed, said Feliciano...
7th grade social sciences exam to be retaken due to "mistakes"
The school education system in Mozambique is dealing with situations that cast doubt on the competence of its leaders. From the poor quality of teaching to errors in textbooks, this year alone there have already been several demonstrations of a lack of skill. The most recent proof of this is the Science exam...
DINAME workers without salaries for more than six months suspend activities
The employees of the National Publishing and Distributing Company of School Material (DINAME) have not received their salaries for more than a month without justification and have suspended their activities. The workers accuse the Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH) of having removed the company from the process of school material distribution...
School registration for first grade begins today
School enrollment for new first grade students for the 2023 school year begins this Monday (03) and will end on December 30. According to the Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH), registration will take place every weekday between 7:30am and 3:30pm. The parents or...
Registration for the first class begins October 3rd
Enrollment for new entries to the first year of schooling in 2023 will begin on October 3, according to a spokesperson for the Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH). The Ministry plans to enroll, by December 30, 2022, more than 1,500,000 children who turn six years old by June 30...
Basic Education: More than 50 schools may be upgraded
The Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH) is mapping more than 50 elementary school to be upgraded to accommodate the secondary level, starting next year, under the National Education System (SNE) Law. The SNE Law, approved by Law No. 18/2018, of December 28, advocates that education...