What this competition is
Angola fills new teaching and education-support posts through a competitive written exam, the Concurso Publico de Ingresso Externo no Sector da Educacao (the Education Sector External Entry Public Competition), opened each year by the Ministerio da Educacao. Candidates are not hired on a CV review alone: a document screening stage checks eligibility, and everyone who clears it then sits a 120-minute written test, administered at the same hour on the same day across every one of the country’s 326 municipios in all 21 provinces. The 2026 session set 9,000 vacancies, 8,000 of them for teaching posts and the remaining 1,000 for administrative posts in the general civil-service career (Tecnico Medio de 3a Classe), making this one of the largest single coordinated recruitment exercises in Angola’s public sector and the strongest candidate this site found for a genuinely national, single-session Angolan exam.
How the competition actually runs
Registration is in person, at the candidate’s municipal education department (Direccao Municipal da Educacao), and runs over roughly three weeks: the 2026 session opened on 15 July and closed on 4 August. Each province and each municipio runs its own registration desks and its own exam centres, but the exercise itself, the test content and schedule, and the governing dispatch all come from the Ministerio da Educacao, which is what keeps this from being the ministry-by-ministry patchwork that has kept other countries’ general civil-service competitions off this site. Provisional lists of admitted and excluded candidates are published together with the test’s content topics, duration and scoring method, roughly three weeks after registration closes (5 to 25 August for the 2026 session). The written test itself follows about a week later, nationwide, lasting 120 minutes (2 September 2026 for that session). Correction and publication of general results follow over the next three weeks, with a further window for candidates to file complaints and receive a response before the process closes.
Selection runs on document screening (analise documental) first, then the written test; the Ministry’s published terms allow a candidate who clears the written test to be called for a further oral, practical or psychotechnical exam depending on the specific post.
Who is eligible
A candidate must hold Angolan nationality, be at least 18 years old, and hold at minimum the 12th grade (12a classe). The specific academic requirement then depends on the post: a primary-education post requires ensino medio obtained in Magisterio Primario, a first-cycle secondary post requires ensino medio in Magisterio or an equivalent qualification, and a second-cycle secondary post requires a Licenciatura in the subject applied for. Angola’s published terms reserve a 4 percent quota per province for candidates with disabilities, who must meet the same requirements as every other candidate and file a medical report stating the type and degree of their disability at the time of registration.
Scale
Angolan press coverage gives a real, sourced scale across several cycles, though at two different levels: the Ministry’s national vacancy count for a given session, and the candidate counts that are reported province by province rather than as a single national total. The clearest fully worked cycle is Luanda province’s 2023-2024 round: 47,627 teachers registered for 855 advertised vacancies (728 primary and first-cycle, 127 second-cycle), of whom 25,191 applications were validated to sit the written test; 19,906 candidates actually sat it, and 5,525 scored a passing grade, a pass rate under 28 percent against those who sat and roughly 12 percent of everyone who first registered. At the national level, the Ministry opened 7,500 vacancies in the 2021 session and 9,000 in the 2026 session (8,000 teaching posts, 1,000 administrative), each time running simultaneously across all 21 provinces, but no single national candidate total that sums every province’s registrations for one session was found in the research behind this page, and none is assumed here: the Luanda figures above describe Luanda alone, not the country.
What this page does not yet cover
Angola’s general civil-service recruitment mechanism, the concurso publico de ingresso na funcao publica, was also researched. It is real, but reporting on it is scattered agency by agency and sector by sector (Saude opened a separate 6,000-vacancy concurso in 2026, the Judiciary ran and then annulled a 2025 round before opening a fresh 2026 one, and other ministries have run their own smaller rounds), without the single coordinated calendar, single governing dispatch and single press-reported national scale that the Education sector’s competition has. That fragmented shape is the same reason several other countries’ general civil-service exams are not covered on this site. Angola’s administration school, the Escola Nacional de Administracao (ENAD, since reorganised under the Escola Nacional de Administracao e Politicas Publicas, ENAPP), runs training and MBA-level capacity-building programmes rather than a competitive written entrance concours with a reported candidate scale, so it is not covered here either. If either mechanism consolidates into a single sourced national session, or produces a sourced national candidate count, this page will be revisited.
Every fact above comes from Ver Angola, an Angolan news outlet that has covered this competition continuously since at least 2021; this site’s sandboxed research environment could not reach Angolan government domains or several other named Angolan outlets directly to cross-check, and no independent corroboration from a second named outlet was found despite repeated searching. The figures themselves are internally consistent across five years of that outlet’s own reporting, with named ministers, named dispatch numbers and specific per-province vacancy breakdowns, which is why this page uses them, but that single-outlet caveat is recorded here rather than left implicit.