Escola Portuguesa de Moçambique - Centro de Ensino e Língua Portuguesa (EPM-CELP) is a

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Maputo Maputo (), formerly named Lourenço Marques until 1976, is the capital, and largest city of Mozambique. Located near the southern end of the country, it is within of the borders with Eswatini and South Africa. The city has a population of 1,0 ...

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. The school is operated by the Portuguese Ministry of Education and serves from Pre-school up to Grade 12. It opened for the 1999–2000 school year,A EPM-CELP é uma valência educativa na cooperação Portugal-Moçambique
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. Escola Portuguesa de Moçambique. 12 July 2008. Retrieved on October 27, 2015. and was created from the Decree-Law No. 241/99 of 25 June promoting Cooperation between the Portuguese Republic and the Republic of Mozambique. This was modified by Decree-Law n.º 47/2009 of 23 February.ESCOLAS COM CURRÍCULO PORTUGUÊS EM MOÇAMBIQUE

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. Direção de Serviços de Ensino e Escolas Portuguesas no Estrangeiro (DSEEPE) of the Portuguese Education Ministry. Retrieved on October 26, 2015. The school's symbol is of a tree within green and red portico. The tree roots represent the school's educational philosophy and are a reference to some verses from works of

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. In the future, the EPM will be the regulatory academy for the Mozambican dialects of the

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Decreto-Lei n.º47/2009Archive
. Diário da República, 1.ª série — N.º 37 — 23 de Fevereiro de 2009. p. 1248-1255. Schools in Maputo Portuguese international schools in Mozambique 1999 establishments in Mozambique Educational institutions established in 1999 {{Mozambique-school-stub