LUSA: 3,000 teachers of Portuguese trained last year, says
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John M Miller
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Jan 17, 2006 06:22 PST
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East Timor: 3,000 teachers of Portuguese trained last year, says official
Dili, Jan. 16 (Lusa) - Lisbon funded the training
of 3,000 Portuguese-language teachers in East
Timor in the last academic year, a Portuguese official said Monday.
Education attaché at Portugal's Dili embassy,
José Revez was speaking at a ceremony to award
diplomas to the Timorese teachers of Portuguese.
He said over 6,000 Portuguese teachers have been trained in Timor since 2003.
Also present was Timor's minister of education
and culture, Armindo Maia, who praised Portugal`s
"speedy response" to a call from the Dili
authorities for assistance to reintroduce
Portuguese in the new nation after its independence in 2002.
Continuing support to Timor's education sector
will come from Portugal, said Maia, and this
assistance will soon be extended to higher education.
Portuguese and Tetum are Timor's two official
languages. Bahasa Indonesian, English and over a
dozen smaller indigenous tongues are also spoken
among its population of about 1 million.
EL/CJB.
Lusa
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