Mozambique Prime Minister calls for strong focus on teacher training

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Mozambique Prime Minister calls for strong focus on teacher training

5:15 CAT | 03 Jul 2025

Photo: Instituto Nacional das Indústrias Culturais e Criativas

Prime Minister Maria Benvinda Levi yesterday called for focus on ongoing teacher training and research into the development of school curricula, in order to improve the teaching and learning process in the country.

When appointing the new director-general of the National Institute for the Development of Education (INDE), Lurdes Nakala, the prime minister further called for continued efforts to consolidate the national education system to make it “inclusive, equitable, efficient, effective and innovative”.

“We intend to continue efforts to improve the mechanisms for defining the guiding principles for curriculum planning for the entire national education system, as well as to promote studies and research aimed at improving the development of curricula and the production of educational material for the various subsystems, as well as the ongoing training of teachers,” the prime minister said.

At the same ceremony in Maputo, Maria Benvinda Levi swore in Florêncio Maulano as director of the National Research Fund (FNI), urging him to develop strategies aimed at promoting and disseminating knowledge, scientific research and technological innovation.

“We recommend transparent management of funds, careful selection of projects to be financed, encouragement of the publication and dissemination of research and investigation results, as well as the strengthening of national and international scientific cooperation networks,” she stated.

At the same event, the prime minister swore in Roberto Dove as the new director-general of the National Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries (INICC), Samuel Samo Gudo as president of the Board of Directors of the National Education Authority (ANEP) and Sérgio Cossa as director-general of the National Institute of Distance Education (INED).

She asked INED to “develop actions that will ensure the continued operation of the national network of distance learning centres and the harmonization between technological innovation and pedagogical principles, strengthening quality assurance mechanisms for a more inclusive, resilient education system that is geared towards contemporary challenges”.

Speaking to journalists after taking office, INDE director-general Lurdes Nakala promised to make changes to the education system’s curricula so that they are in line with the current needs of students and the country.

“We have to sit down with the team at INDE and, together, make a diagnosis and draw up an action plan to prevent similar actions in the future,” Nakala said in relation to the late printing of school textbooks “creating constraints” for the education system.

Mozambique currently has four provincial distance learning centres located in the city and province of Maputo, and in Manica and Niassa, but the new director-general of INED, Sérgio Cossa, promised to move forward with the implementation of centres in the remaining provinces, as part of the government’s plan to make education accessible to more Mozambicans.

“We are going to look at the problem we have in education, which is the issue of access. We know that in general education we have a universe of around 10 million students and distance learning covers 6%. […] There is a need to take advantage of the potential that distance learning has, which is to increase, to take advantage of the traditional model that already exists, multimedia and technologies for the expansion of education,” Cossa said.

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