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2:50 CAT | 06 Jan 2025
FILE- In addition to UEM, entrance exams for Zambeze University, in Sofala province, central Mozambique, and Lúrio University, in Nampula, previously scheduled for the same period, have also been postponed. [File photo: DW]
- Eduardo Mondlane University has postponed its 2025 entrance exams due to delays in secondary school assessments.
“Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) has postponed entrance exams for the academic year to allow 12th grade students of general secondary education to take their special exams, which will take place in the week of the 20th of this month,” declared Isabel Guiamba, head of the admissions department of Mozambique’s oldest higher education institution.
The Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH) will submit all 10th and 12th grade students who were unable to take their national exams to “special exams” to be held from January 20 to 24, following teacher strikes demanding overtime pay and post-election demonstrations.
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“Normally, there is a sequence of procedures. First, MINEDH evaluates its students, and these are the ones who normally sit our exams. So, the postponement is to allow them the opportunity to take their special exams and then their higher education exams,” Guiamba explained.
Academic calendar
Guiamba admitted that the postponement of the exams, which were due to take place between the 7th and 10th of this month, will affect the academic calendar for new entrants, but said that “adjustments will be made to accommodate this situation”.
A total of 25,247 candidates will compete for 4,610 places at Eduardo Mondlane University, Guiamba said, along with 3,572 candidates competing for 795 places at Lúrio University and the 2,305 places available for 8,328 candidates at Zambeze University.
Lusa news agency has reported that Mozambican teachers have threatened to boycott “special exams” scheduled for students who were unable to take national exams in December due to class strikes and post-election protests until the government paid overtime arrears.
Post-election crisis
Mozambique has been going through a post-election crisis since October, with protests and strikes that have culminated in violent clashes between the police and demonstrators who reject the results of the October 9 elections, with almost 300 dead and more than 500 people injured by gunshots, according to civil society organizations monitoring the process.
On 23 December, the Constitutional Council of Mozambique proclaimed Daniel Chapo, a candidate supported by the ruling Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO), as the winner of the election for President of the Republic, with 65.17% of the votes, succeeding Filipe Nyusi in office, as well as the victory of Frelimo, which maintained its parliamentary majority, in the general elections of 9 October.
This announcement increased the chaos throughout the country, with supporters of Venâncio Mondlane – who, according to the Constitutional Council, obtained only 24% of the votes – protesting in the streets with barricades, looting and clashes with the police, who have fired shots in an attempt to quell the movement.
Source: Deutsche Welle
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