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1:02 CAT | 29 Mar 2018
Notícias
The education sector in Mozambique is to press ahead with registering persons and entities who offer tuition in different disciplines and primary and secondary education classes. The idea is to create a database of tutors and to monitor and evaluate their work.
The Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH), the promoter of the initiative, believes that the database will enable it to provide support to tutors as regards curricular plans and training.
According to Ivaldo Quincardete, national director of Cross-Cultural Affairs at MINEDH, the decision to create the register results from the recognition of the role of the tutors and their contribution in consolidating the learning acquired by the students in the classroom, which has helped to improve the quality of education.
He explained that it is only by having tutors registered that the education sector will be able to perform the necessary monitoring and evaluation, based on analysis of tuition centres by primary and secondary students.
“In order to attain this objective, it is indispensable to identify tuition centres and register them by means of an application for authorisation to the District Office of Education, Youth and Technology, mentioning the disciplines, classes and levels of education at which they operate,” he explained.
A tutor is any individual with technical and scientific qualifications who independently prepares students in one or several disciplines for the purpose of helping them improve their school performance.
The figure of the tutor, according to Ivaldo Quincardete, is included in Ministerial Diploma number 119/2014, which approves the Regulation of Private Education.
According to this provision, the exercise of the tuition activity requires authorisation, upon request, from the authorities of the body that oversees the education sector at district level, a procedure that currently does not exist.
“What we want is to map tuition centres. We want to know, for example, who the tutors in the city of Maputo are and where they are, so that we can support them in teaching programmes and offer means for them to improve their performance. We do not want to collect taxes. That is not our assignment. What we really want is to help them with means, because we know that they make an important contribution to the sector,” Quincardete said, inviting all the tutors who carry out the activity, no matter where or how, to join the register.
Source: Notícias
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