Covid-19: Cash-strapped private education suspends more than 140,000 contracts in Angola

 At least 141,000 employment contracts involving teachers and administrative staff have been suspended in several private education institutions in Angola until this month.

Of this figure, 14,000 contracts are teachers and administrative employees in private and public-private higher education institutions.

The remaining 127,000, are employees in general education (primary, I and II cycles).

The measure comes in the wake of the institutions’ inability to respond to the costs of salaries and other current expenses, resulting from the suspension of classes in last March.

Deprived of funding sources and with no provision for the return of classes, the education institutions are said to have dismissed thousands of professionals.

Angolan Government announced last July the suspension of the collection of fees in all public, public-private and private education institutions.

 The Executive had determined the charge of up to 60 percent in private education institutions and up to 25 percent in public-private institutions, under the decree of the State of Emergency.