No Pre-School in Basic Education

The Mozambican government has admitted that it is still premature to include pre-school education as part of the country's basic education programme, given the country’s financial and institutional constraints.

The country’s education minister, Zeferino Martins, made the announcement in Maputo during a meeting presenting the results of a programme of a NGO, Save the Children, which was aimed at developing pre-school education in the southern province of Gaza.

Martins says that the priority of his ministry's strategic education plan is to ensure that all children have the opportunity to complete a standardised, good quality primary education of seven grades by 2015.

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