Nyusi opens meeting of secondary school directors – AIM

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Nyusi opens meeting of secondary school directors – AIM

3:50 CAT | 01 Mar 2020

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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday challenged the directors of the country’s secondary schools to expand and deepen the base of knowledge of pupils making the transition from primary to secondary education.

This challenge, he added, seeks to ensure that the knowledge, values, skills and attitudes acquired in primary education allow the pupils to continue their studies and perhaps guarantee their later insertion into social life and the labour market.

Nyusi was speaking in Moamba district, about 60 kilometres northwest of Maputo, at the opening of a meeting of secondary school directors from the south of the country, intended to build their capacity in matters of school management.

“We want a secondary education that broadens and deepens the knowledge of the pupils”, he said, “taking them out of the box so that they have an expanded vision. Pupils should think deeply and not merely emotionally”.

“The importance of the secondary schools is that they are a phase of transition from basic education to higher education”, Nyusi continued. “It is in this phase that we have the space to correct what has not been done well and to prepare the ground for higher education”.

The government, he said, has great consideration for the role of educational managers, and in particular that of the directors of educational establishments in putting into practice the government’s vision for the country’s development agenda, which involves guaranteeing an inclusive, good quality education.
“You are the key to improving our education system”, he told his audience. “Through this opportunity we want to greet all teachers, students, parents and civil society and thank them for the support they have given to the sector”.

Nyusi told the 250 school managers present that, throughout this five year period (2020-2024), the government’s education strategy will involve providing resources to guarantee equity in access to school, the retention of pupils, and their participation in education. In the area of school administration, the focus will be on the promotion of efficient, effective and transparent management.

“We shall continue to invest a considerable part of the state budget in education, so as to guarantee good quality training of children, youths and adults”, said the President, “We shall work to strengthen the mechanisms of internal control, accountability and greater personal responsibility in the use of public resources”.

Quoting from a well-known speech by the country’s first President, Samora Machel, Nyusi said “the school must position itself as an excellent base for the people to take power and that is what is happening. Schools should promote and develop the spirit of innovation, as well as creativity and flexibility”.

He criticised the behaviour of some teachers who do not show the minimum of professional ethics required of them, including showing up at their classes drunk. Teachers should set an example to their communities, “but how do they expect to be respected, if they arrive at their classrooms drunk?”, Nyusi asked. “The directors should not allow this type of situation”.

Also in Moamba on Monday, Nyusu inaugurated the Centre for Tax and Customs Studies, built from scratch by the Mozambican Tax Authority (AT) to train and recycle AT cadres, and other staff from the public and private sectors.

The Centre has 32 classrooms for 800 students, dormitories and canteens. It cost over 600 million meticais (about 9.2 million dollars), paid by the Mozambican government.

Source: AIM