The 11 de Novembro University (UON; pt, Universidade 11 de Novembro) is an

Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina ...

public university A public university or public college is a university or college that is in state ownership, owned by the state or receives significant government spending, public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private unive ...

based in the city of Cabinda. In addition to Cabinda, it has campuses in Buco-Zau and

Soyo Soyo (formerly known as ''Santo António do Zaire'') is a city, with a population of 200,920 (2014 census), and a municipality, with a population of 227,175 (2014 census), located in the province of Zaire in Angola, at the mouth of the Congo riv ...

. Formerly one of the Agostinho Neto University campuses, it was separated in the process of reforms to Angolan higher education that took place in 2008 and 2009.Sobre a U.O.N
Portal Universidade 11 de Novembro. The university's base territory is the Cabinda Province and

Zaire Province Zaire ( pt, Zaire, french: Zaïre, kg, Nzadi) is one of the 18 provinces of Angola. It occupies in the north west of the country and had a population of 594,428 inhabitants in 2014. It is bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the nor ...

Name origin

The university pays tribute in its name to Angola's independence day, which took place on "November 11th" 1975.

Historic

The UON descends from the former campus of

Agostinho Neto University The Agostinho Neto University ( pt, Universidade Agostinho Neto) is the largest public university of Angola, based in Luanda and in the nearby city of Talatona, in Angola. In the academic year 2005–06, 68 licensing courses were ministered b ...

(UAN) in Cabinda, opened in 1996. The campus housed one of the several Higher Institutes of Education Sciences (ISCED's) of UAN spread across Angola. In 2008, ISCED in Cabinda is affected by the higher education reform promoted by the government of Angola. The reform proposed the decentralization of the UAN campuses, so that they could form new autonomous university centers. From this proposal emerged the 11 de Novembro University (UON), implemented by decree-law 7/09, of 12 May 2009, approved by the Council of Ministers. By presidential decree 285, of October 29, 2020 — which reorganizes the Network of Public Higher Education Institutions of Angola (RIPES) — the Higher Polytechnic School of

M'banza Congo Mbanza-Kongo (, , or , known as São Salvador in Portuguese from 1570 to 1975), is the capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire Province with a population of 148,000 (2014). Mbanza Kongo (properly Mbanza Koongo or Kôngo in most acceptable orthog ...

was separated from the UON and made autonomous. It became the Zaire Higher School of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, operating on the M'banza Congo campus.Decreto presidencial nº 285, de 29 de outubro de 2020 - Estabelece a reorganização da Rede de Instituições Públicas de Ensino Superior
Diário da República - I Série - nº 173. 29 october 2020.

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