Amid strikes and protests, university delays entry exams

Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique has postponed its 2025 entrance exams due to delays in secondary school assessments, reports Club of Mozambique.

The Ministry of Education and Human Development will submit all 10th and 12th grade students who were unable to take their national exams to ‘special exams’ to be held from 20 to 24 January, following teacher strikes demanding overtime pay and post-election demonstrations. Lusa news agency has reported that Mozambican teachers have threatened to boycott ‘special exams’ scheduled for students who were unable to take national exams in December due to class strikes and post-election protests until the government paid overtime arrears.

Mozambique has been going through a post-election crisis since October, with protests and strikes that have culminated in violent clashes between the police and demonstrators who reject the results of the 9 October elections, with almost 300 dead and more than 500 people injured by gunshots, according to civil society organisations monitoring the process.
Full report on the Club of Mozambique site