Dundo - The Minister of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESCTI), Paula De Oliveira, said on Saturday that the proposal of the General State Budget (OGE) for the ministry, in 2025, foresees the improvement of existing infrastructures and the construction of new ones, in the public sector.
The proposal for the General State Budget for the 2025 financial year (OGE-2025), approved Friday in general by the National Assembly, with 112 votes in favor, 63 against and three abstentions, concentrates 2.41 percent for the Ministry of Higher Education.
The 2025 State Budget foresees, overall, expenses in the amount of 34.63 trillion kwanzas, an increase of 40% compared to the 2024 State Budget, and was prepared based on an average price of a barrel of oil of US$70.
Speaking to the press at the end of the working visit to the province of Lunda-Norte, the minister said that the Ministry foresees, in the next budget, to complete some projects, infrastructure, as well as the opening of an internal and external public tender for the promotion of teachers.
'We need to have good infrastructures and qualified teaching staff to have quality training and consequently qualified staff to respond to the country's numerous challenges', she stressed.
On the other hand, she informed that the main objective of his visit to Lunda-Norte is to assess the infrastructural conditions for the implementation, in the next academic year, of the university pole of the International University of Cuanza (UNIC), located in the province of Bié.
She said that from the conditions presented by the local government, it was defined that from the next academic year, the first university pole of UNIC, in Angola, with technical and engineering courses, will be implemented in the municipality of Lucapa.
She said that in the first, the pole, which will operate at the Polytechnic Institute of Lucapa, in the after-work period, will start with a degree in education science.
UNIC is the result of a partnership between the Ibero-American University Foundation and the European University of the Atlantic, which together constitute the Euro-African University Foundation.
The University is dedicated to the training of staff at the undergraduate and graduate levels, in various areas of knowledge.
The province of Lunda-Norte has a higher education institution, Lueji A'nkonde University, in the public sector, which teaches courses in Economics, Law and Educational Sciences. HD /DOJ
