Angola, Luanda. The Angolan Government has been working for the implementation of distance learning in the country, soon, the minister of Education, Mpinda Simão, has announced. The initiative will start from conception of a national policy that meets this demand, said the minister, who was speaking at the opening of a workshop on advocacy of distance learning.

"The open and distance teaching in our country is in development stage, but it is an intention of our Government to secure its implementation", said the minister, adding that the mentioned teaching represents a educational strategy committed to the democratisation of access, schooling, mainly in areas where there are not institutions for this goal.

Commenting on the workshop, he said he hopes that the experts from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) transmit knowledge that update the representatives from various sectors to gather the usage of modern information and communication technologies that enable the share of know how.

Source: portalangop.co.ao