Mozambique: Teachers threaten to boycott special exams

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Mozambique: Teachers threaten to boycott special exams

2:32 CAT | 06 Jan 2025

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Mozambique’s National Association of Teachers (ANAPRO) is threatening to boycott the special exams scheduled for students who were unable to take the national exams in December as a result of the post-election crisis characterized by mass demonstrations called by the presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane to protest against the fraudulent results of the general elections held on 9 October.

According to ANAPRO, the teachers’ boycott of final exams in primary and secondary schools affected about 35,000 students across the country.

The teachers claim that they will only work if the government pays them for the overtime work that it has been owing for the past three years.

“First they have to pay all the overtime arrears, then we’ll supervise the special exams, otherwise they’ll say we’re boycotting the exams, while in fact we are demanding our rights”, the ANAPRO spokesperson, Marcos Mulima, told reporters.

As a result of the boycott, the admission of final-year students to university and to vocational and technical education is compromised since many did not take their exams last year.

If the government does not respond to the demands, the teachers are also threatening to boycott the start of the school year in the national education system, carrying out a general paralysis of activities until the government settles the debts.

The teachers in the Mozambican National Education System are also threatening not to work with classes of over 100 pupils, since overcrowding has been harming the quality of education.

To make matters more complicated, the term of office of the current government expires this month. The ANAPRO demands will land on the desk of whoever is appointed the new Education Minister.

Source: AIM