Luanda – The Angolan government plans to award around 50,000 new scholarships by 2027, said Tuesday in the Province of Luanda the minister of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Maria do Rosário Bragança.
Speaking at the 14th edition of the “CaféCIPRA, forum sponsored by the Press Centre of the Presidency of the Republic of Angola (CIPRA), held on the theme of “Training human capital in the country and in the best universities in the world: goals and results”, she emphasised that the measure aims to increase the number of scholarship students in the country, given the demand for higher education.
The minister said that, to date, the country has around 31,000 students on undergraduate scholarships, adding that the government intends to award 10,000 undergraduate scholarships and 1,500 postgraduate scholarships every year.
She stated that there is a mandatory spirit to improve the training cycle in the country with the aim to meet the market need in order to reduce unemployment rate due to the fact that the outgoing profile does not match the needs of the market.
The government official explained that the capacity to monitor external scholarship students will be strengthened by finding out about their academic performance.
On the other hand, Maria do Rosário Bragança announced the creation, by 2027, of an employability centre with the aim of accompanying trainees and thus enabling them to establish agreements with companies to generate employment, even if it is temporary.
At the time, she also informed that there is a pilot project linked to entrepreneurship, with support from the Netherlands, involving four educational institutions, to create a curriculum for entrepreneurship in higher education, so that the institutions can include this subject in the various programmes.
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