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The Chamber of Deputies approved this Thursday, March 12, the Bill that creates the Obiang Nguema Mbasogo University, and decentralizes its operating structure, in a plenary session held under the moderation of the President, Doctor Salomon Nguema Owono.
Before the plenary session, the Parliamentary Commission on Education, Culture and Sports met to analyze and adopt the text resulting from the work of the Ad-Hoc Commission that was appointed to reformulate the initial project, based on the observations made by the deputies, in the sense that, instead of eight universities as proposed by the Government, a single university is created, with university structures in the different provinces.
The future Obiang Nguema Mbasogo University (UNOM) will have faculties, institutes, higher schools and university schools, in different university districts, because the Government wants to create a completely decentralized university in the different provinces of the national territory.
After several deliberations, the Parliamentary Commission and the Government Delegation have reached a consensus on the decentralization structure that the new university will have, through the university districts that are planned to be created in the eight provinces, which will have their own headquarters, their economic and operational autonomy.
With this decentralization regime, the Executive wants to give greater effectiveness to both the right to education and the freedom of teaching, provided for in article 21 of our Fundamental Law and the UNOM of each province will include the university district of the same, and will cover the administrative districts of its jurisdiction, with headquarters in the provincial capital.
With the exception of the polytechnics dependent on the Ministry of Education, all public educational centers for regulated professional technical training, created in the country, assigned to different ministerial departments of the State Civil Administration, will become organically dependent on the UNOM, as faculties, institutes, higher schools and university schools.
The Parliamentary Commission on Education, Culture and Sports has analyzed and adopted the different articles of that bill, which regulate the creation, nature and missions of the future university, its operating bodies, its decentralization regime, the conditions of access to it, its economic and financial regime, as well as its personnel regime.
In the same way, the powers that the operating bodies of that university will have have been adopted and, after listening to the minutes and the opinion of the Parliamentary Commission, the Plenary Session of the Chamber has approved this bill unanimously by the two parliamentary groups.
In the Chamber of Deputies, the importance of this project and its historical character are highlighted, because this university model will allow students with limited economic resources to have access to higher education from their respective provinces, as indicated by the spokespersons of the parliamentary groups, Miguel Mba Nzang for the Democratic Coalition and Federico Abaga Ondo for the PDGE Group, who have encouraged the Government to train the human resources necessary for the materialization of this project and integrate subjects into future faculties. beneficial for local development, to combine critical thinking, sustainability and practical skills in key areas
Text and photos: Press Office of the Chamber of Deputies
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