Angolan minister of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation Maria Sambo said on Friday that the culture of quality and scientific research should be a permanent exercise of the universities, to avoid stagnation and setbacks in staff training.
Sambo made these remarks during the closing of the 4th national colloquium on Law Teaching in Angola, promoted by the Lueji A’Nkonde University, as part of the commemorations of the 12th anniversary of the Law Faculty.
She recommended higher education institutions to improve academic programmes and raise their scientific productivity.
The minister added that university students cannot be mere repositories of knowledge, reproducing only knowledge acquired by teachers, without, however, having the capacity to produce scientific content.
On the other hand, she said that higher education institutions should be increasingly inserted in the communities, through university extension.
“It is necessary that the community served by the university feels that it adds value to it and that it does so not only by training staff,” she said.
He said that for this five-year period 2022-2027, the Angolan government planned several actions in the area of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, aimed at improving the quality of teaching, scientific research and university entrepreneurship.
The 2022-2027 agenda also focuses on improving academic infrastructure to ensure the quality of teachers’ work, teaching and learning.
On the other hand, the minister encouraged the Faculty of Law to provide more and more environments for scientific debates, which enrich the different authors of the academic community with more knowledge.
The IV colloquium aimed to reflect on customary law, share practices of modern and updated methodologies and is being promoted in celebration of the Law Faculty’s 12th anniversary.
The two-day event discussed “customary law in the public sphere”, “ex officio defence techniques”, “optional and compulsory inventory”, “employment income tax”, “instruction of disciplinary procedures”, “society and custom”, and “customary law in the private sphere”.
Since its implementation, Lueji A’nkonde University has graduated 5,269 graduates in Law, Economics and Pedagogy.
Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)