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Republic of Angola – Ministry of Education Diagnosis of the system of collection, processing, analysis and distribution of educational information UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Luanda, November 2005 Angola Diagnosis, November 2005 Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................. 2 GENERAL INFORMATION ..................................................................................... 4 RESULTS AND GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................ 6 Collection of Data ................................................................................... 6 Data processing ...................................................................................... 7 Information Use and Distribution................................................................... 8 CONCLUSION ................................................................................................ 9 ACRONYMS ................................................................................................ 13 DIAGNOSIS OF ANGOLAN EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS .......................................... 14 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................... 14 2. ORGANIZATION OF THE ANGOLAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM ................................ 15 2.1 MINISTRIES IN CHARGE OF EDUCATION .............................................................. 15 2.1.1 MINARS–Ministry of Social Assistance and Reinsertion ................................ 15 2.1.2 MED–Ministry of Education. ............................................................... 16 2.1.3. Other institutions involved in producing data relating to education. .................. 18 2.2 PERSPECTIVES ON THE EVOLUTION OF EDUCATION IN ANGOLA ....................................... 19 3. DIAGNOSIS OF INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUPPORT ....................... 20 3.1. ORGANIZATION AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES ............................... 20 3.1.1 Organization................................................................................. 20 3.1.2 Responsibilities for statistical activities .................................................. 23 3.2 HUMAN RESOURCES ................................................................................... 24 3.3 TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ......................................................................... 27 3.4 SYSTEM FINANCING AND EXTERNAL SUPPORT ......................................................... 28 3.5 GENERAL RECOMMENDATION .......................................................................... 28 4. DIAGNOSIS OF THE STATISTICS PRODUCTION CHAIN ..................................... 29 4.1 DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE STATISTICAL DATA COLLECTION PROCESS ...................... 29 4.1.1 Primary and secondary education .......................................................... 29 4.1.2 Preschool education ......................................................................... 31 4.1.3 Adult education ............................................................................. 31 4.1.4 Superior Education ......................................................................... 31 4.1.5 Summary .................................................................................... 32 4.2 RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................................................. 33 5. PRODUCTION AND USE OF EDUCATIONAL INDICATORS .................................... 33 5.1 AVAILABILITY OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY INDICATORS ............................................. 35 5.2.1 Distribution of statistics ................................................................... 36 5.2.2 Use of statistics ............................................................................ 37 5.2.3. General recommendations ................................................................. 37 6. DIAGNOSIS AND ANALYSIS OF DATA QUALITY .............................................. 37 6.1 QUALITY PREREQUISITES ............................................................................. 39 2 Angola Diagnosis November 2005 6.2 INTEGRITY ............................................................................................ 40 6.7 SUMMARY OF THE ANALYSIS OF DATA QUALITY ...................................................... 44 7. INFORMATION SYSTEM ........................................................................... 46 7.1 COMPUTERIZED PROVINCIAL INFORMATION SYSTEM PROPOSAL ....................................... 46 7.1.1 Context ...................................................................................... 46 7.1.2 Proposed Computerized Provincial Information System .................................. 46 7.2 EDUCATIONAL INDICATORS ........................................................................... 48 7.2.1 Basic Indicators for Primary Education ................................................... 48 7.2.2 Educational Indicators and ODG and EFA Monitoring ................................... 49 7.3 SCHOOL REGISTER .................................................................................... 52 7.4 COLLECTION TOOL .................................................................................... 53 8. GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE DIAGNOSIS, PROPOSALS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ...... 55 8.1 GENERAL SUMMARY ................................................................................... 55 8.2 PROPOSALS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................. 56 8.2.1 Organization and institutionality ........................................................... 57 8.2.2 Financial and Human Resources ............................................................ 58 8.2.3 Methodological Aspects .................................................................... 58 8.2.4 Distribution of information ................................................................ 59 FINAL COMMENTS ..................................................................................... 60 APPENDIXES ............................................................................................ 61 APPENDIX 1–REPORT ON BODIES VISITED ................................................................. 61 APPENDIX 2 – ACTION PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR 2006–2009 64 APPENDIX 3–PROPOSED PROVINCIAL LEVEL COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM ....................................... 69 APPENDIX 4–PROPOSED SCHOOL REGISTER ................................................................ 73 APPENDIX 5 – BASIC IEU (*) AND ODM AND EFA INDICATORS .......................................... 75 APPENDIX 6– INFORMATION COLLECTION FORMS ......................................................... 76 3 Angola Diagnosis November 2005 PRESENTATION General Information 1. After the conflict that devastated Angola for almost thirty years, the education sector faces many challenges. More specifically, there is a need to expand the educational network to reach those children excluded from the school system in areas previously inaccessible as well as in all other areas of the country. This difficult task is part of the experimental context of educational reform, administrative decentralization in which the management of primary and secondary education has been assigned to provincial governments, rapid population growth (3% a year) and return of displaced populations to their original areas following the war. 2. The Ministry of Education, aware that an adequate process of educational planning in this situation requires a reliable information system has indicated through its Studies, Planning and Statistics Office, the need to review the tools, methodologies and channels of information production, communication and processing to improve the quality of decisions made and the transparency of its actions. 3. With the goal to develop a process and generate results which include the experiences of other countries and with high-level technical assistance, the Ministry of Education has requested the cooperation of its partners for the creation of its information system. 4. Together with its main partners --French Cooperation through PROFORGE, the European Commission, UNICEF, UNESCO/UIS (UNESCO Institute for Statistics), UNESCO’s regional offices in Windhoek (regional cluster) and Dakar and several NGOs working for the improvement of school management and quality of educational information-- the Ministry of Education has prepared a plan for the creation and implementation of an educational information system, starting with primary education. 5. Three initial steps have been identified in this long path: 1) The implementation of a diagnosis of the information system to provide a broad view of the existing capacities, tools and problems in the production and processing of educational information (with special emphasis on primary education); 2) A quick survey on educational infra-structures and basic data (MED-UNICEF); 3) A seminar to reach a consensus on a preliminary form and information system for primary education (MED with support from French Cooperation, European Commission, UNICEF and UNESCO). 6. As part of UNESCO/UIS’ Public Sector Capacity Building in Statistics (PSCB), with the support of the European Union and PROFORGE, this diagnosis was made with the objective of analysing the existing tools, indicators, capacities and difficulties for the production, processing and management of information