An analysis by researcher João Feijó, from the Rural World Observatory (OMR), lists the current state of education in Mozambique, especially in rural areas, as a problem "more serious than terrorism" that could compromise the future of the country.

Cited by the sapo portal, the analyst put forward his perspective during an interview where he focused on investment needs in the province of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, where natural gas exploration will begin this year.

João Feijó considers that the speed with which investments for the exploration of the Rovuma gas were appealed and obtained was the same as "putting the cart before the horse".

In his view, before moving on to investments and exploration, the first bet should be on education.

For the sociologist and doctorate in African studies, the state of education is "a fraud" and "a cancer," particularly in primary education, "where most children finish fifth grade without knowing how to read and/or write their name. Everyone is watching."

As he describes from his experience this is also due to teachers' poor teaching skills.

"I go around the bush, I hire teachers to apply questionnaires, and the rural teachers who are in these schools don't know how to calculate areas," he exemplified, adding that they are teachers "who read to spell."

He says he enters speaking in Portuguese in rural schools, "but nobody understands" what he says, referring to students in the fifth to seventh grade, but who only master the local languages.

João Feijó concludes that "the state of primary education is the greatest collective deception. Read more...