Country will continue to bet on building school infrastructure and teacher training to ensure better quality of the teaching and learning process in the next decade.

This was one of the main challenges posed by the education sector at the VII Coordinating Council of the Ministry of Education and Human Development, which was held in Chidenguele, Mandlakazi district, Gaza province.

According to the professor of education, Carmelita Namashulua, the massification of children entering school and the reduction of illiteracy among young people and adults are some of the main challenges of the sector over the next ten years.

With regard to the entry of children, Namashulua pointed out that in 2020, the country registered a schooling rate at the age of six of 78 percent, a figure that should be increased in the coming years, not to leave any petiz out.

At the same time, the sector should be betting on reducing illiteracy rates, which are currently around 40 percent to 26 percent in the coming times.

For the Minister of Education and Human Development, a quality education requires public servants to pause for an unreserved delivery to the cause. ‘The present and future life of thousands of young children and adults is at the mercy of our decisions’, he said.

For this reason, he called for a collective commitment to provide adequate solutions to the problems in the sector, with the provision of opportunities to develop relevant knowledge, skills and values.

To achieve these objectives, Carmelita Namashulua advocates greater proactivity of all education bodies in fulfilling the plans, as well as greater involvement of partners and communities.

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