Saurimo – Lunda-sul-based Agrarian technical school will implement plant production courses on this year’s syllabus that starts on September 2, the local Education Department director, Perfeito Candondolo said Wednesday.
The only educational institution dedicated to agricultural training in Lunda-Sul has enrolled a total of 66 new students, out of the 100 planned for the general agronomy, veterinary, fish farming, aquaculture, plant production, and animal management and forest resources courses.
Perfeito Candondolo said the 100 places made available were not filled because ‘there is little interest from young people’, who prefer courses linked to mining, having urged parents to direct their children towards technical courses, given the shortage of staff with technical qualifications in various specialties, especially agriculture.
The education official said so far technical institutes in Lunda-Sul have enrolled 12,150 students in IT, autarchy, accounting and management, human resources, civil construction, electricity, general agronomy, veterinary science, fish farming, aquaculture, plant production, animal management and forest resources.
In total, 239, 59 pupils have been enrolled in all education subsystems, 142,830 of them in primary education, pre-school (31,407), teaching (3,132), professional technical education (12,150), high school (4,455), first cycle (27,270).
For Youth and Adult Education a total of 17,815 students have been enrolled.
The province has 185 schools, a total of 1,970 classrooms and 5, 32 teachers. JW/HD/DAN/AMP
