AFP Copyright: AFP Afrobarometer says two-thirds of school-age children do not go to class Image caption: Afrobarometer says two-thirds of school-age children do not go to classOne of the authors of a big report on pupil absenteeism in Angola has told the BBC that a “serious lack of schools” is to blame. A recent Afrobarometer survey shows that two-thirds of school-age children do not go to class. “It’s not a rural or urban problem but a national one,” David Boio, co-researcher of the Afrobarometer survey, told BBC News. Paulo Araújo, a senior Angolan education official, told the BBC that the government was trying to address this and had constructed more than 500 schools, under what is called the Integrated Plan for the Intervention of Municipalities (PIIM), over the last five years. Those with an interest in educating their children will often prefer to pay for private schools as state-run institutions tend to have bad reputations.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 07, 2022 17:13 UTC