Almost 300 pupils missed exams in Zambezia – Mozambique

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Almost 300 pupils missed exams in Zambezia – Mozambique

7:00 CAT | 18 Nov 2016

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Almost 300 pupils missed their end or year exams in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia, due to the destabilization caused by the gunmen of the rebel movement Renamo.

Speaking at a Maputo press conference on Thursday, the spokesperson for the Ministry of education, Ivan Collinson, said that those affected were second grade students from six schools in Mulevala, Mugeba and Mocuba districts.

“In Zambezia province, 292 pupils were not able to take exams because of situations linked to military incidents”, Collinson said, and the Ministry was now looking into alternative ways of allowing these children to sit the exams.

“We shall have a second call, beginning as from next Monday”, he said. “We hope that the situation will be secure so that the pupils can go to school and take the exams”.

Collinson added that in four provinces (Manica, Sofala, Zambezia and Nampula) the calendar for the final primary school exams had to be changed because of the security situation, which affected 19,000 pupils in 125 schools. In some cases, Renamo activity made it impossible for pupils to sit the exams in their own school.

“In these provinces”, he said, “the pupils from the affected schools will sit the final exams in nearby schools”. In some specific cases, notably in Manica, “the exams will only cover the part of the curriculum the pupils have been able to study, so that they do not lose the entire school year”.

Recognising that this might prejudice these students’ chances in the succeeding grades, Collinson said the Ministry will inform teachers of the need to pay special attention to this group of pupils who were unable to complete the curriculum for the 2016 school year.

Source: AIM