Education in Angola - History of Education in Angola, Lusiada University, List of Universities in Angola, Universidade Privada de Angola (Paperback)

Chapters: History of Education in Angola, Lusiada University, List of Universities in Angola, Universidade Privada de Angola. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Education in Angola has four years of compulsory, free primary education which began at age seven, and secondary education which began at age eleven, lasting eight years. Basic adult literacy continues to be extremely low, but there are conflicting figures from government and other sources. It is difficult to assess not only literacy but also other educational needs. Statistics available in 2001 from UNICEF estimate adult literacy to be 56 percent for males and 29 percent for women. African access to educational opportunities was highly limited for most of the colonial period, many rural Angolan populations of the vast countryside retained their native culture and language and were not even able to speak or understand Portuguese. In mainland Portugal, the homeland of the colonial authorities who ruled Angola from the 16th century until 1975, by the end of the 19th century the illiteracy rates were at over 80 percent and higher education was reserved for a small percentage of the population as well. 68.1 percent of mainland Portugal's population was still classified as illiterate by the 1930 census. Mainland Portugal's literacy rate by the 1940s and early 1950s was low for North American and Western European standards at the time. Only in the mid-1960s did the country make public education available for all children between the ages of six and twelve, and the overseas territories profited from this new educational developments and change in policy at Lisbon. In Angola, until the 1950s facilities run by the government were few for such a large territory and restricted to the urban areas. R...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1657691