The Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) may review the criteria for admission to higher education to ensure that admitted candidates have minimum competencies.

According to the Minister of Education, Samaria dos Anjos Tovela, who was speaking this Thursday (27) in Maputo on the sidelines of the opening of the "workshop" on validating higher education qualifications, the measure aims to reverse the current situation in which, in some cases, candidates with grades below six are admitted to private universities, as long as they are the highest grade, regardless of whether or not it is a negative grade [below 10].

"We have to take a higher grade from a positive one. So we can say, we're talking about the highest grades, the minimum being, for example, 10," said Samaria dos Anjos Tovela.

Quoted by AIMShe said that by admitting candidates with marks below 10, the quality that we want graduates to have after their training and to meet the needs of the job market is not being upheld.

"If you come in at a very low level, you can't keep up and improve and develop the skills that will allow you to operate professionally. So that's our challenge," he noted, while acknowledging that the problems in the sector he heads exist in all education subsystems, so "the aim now is to align ourselves, review and quickly be able to move forward with some solidity".

Regarding the event, Tovela said that the harmonization of qualifications in the country's Higher Education Institutions will guarantee the mobility of teachers and students to any corner of the world, because, he said, the qualifications to be approved are in line with those of the region [SADC], the continent and the world.

"The aim, essentially, is to guarantee mobility so that any teacher here can operate anywhere. They can go out and actually work anywhere. Our students can be mobile. Students from there can come here and fit into our higher education subsystem," he said.

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