Lubango - The chairman of Huíla's Higher Institute of Educational Sciences (ISCED), Helder Bahu, on Monday instructed the Center for the Development of Education (CIDE) to carry out an investigation to identify the causes of poor performance in higher education entrance exams.
The study will be carried out in partnership with the Department of Social Sciences and Education, both part of the institution, and also plans to create a ranking of the schools with the best and worst performance.
Speaking at the opening of the 2023/2024 academic year, Bahu said this follows the high failure rate in the entrance exams. In the last four years, there has been a significant decline in applicants to ISCED-Huila.
Giving a comparative summary, he said that in the 2023-2024 academic year, 2,826 students applied for a total of 1,155 places and only 592 were successful, which corresponds to 51.2%, while this year, 2,832 applied for 1,10 places and only 536 were successful, which corresponds to 53%.
According to the statistics, the president said, there is a chance that the after-school system will not open, since the success rate was low, namely in the courses in Early Childhood Education, with four successful, French Language, with two, English Language, with five, Biology, with eight, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, with three successful each, and History, with nine.
He said the trend in demand is for degrees in Portuguese Language, Primary Education, Biology and History, while there has been a marked decrease in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
“An institution the size of ISCED-HUÍLA should not stand by impassively and disinterestedly and watch processes that can be changed and contribute to the good (...)” of the country, he said.
ISCED-Lubango has 5,000 students from the 1st to the 4th year, spread over 13 courses, with emphasis on the integration of the Education in Childhood Teaching and Primary Teaching, whose classes are taught by 100 teachers and the administrative work ensured by 78 technical staff. BP/MS/TED/AMP
