HAKIELIMU research findings on the state of education in Tanzania conducted last year reflects on the reality on the falling standards of education, the government has acknowledged.
The Deputy Minister for Education,
Science, Technology and Vocational Training, Eng Stella Manyanya, said
in Parliament yesterday that to a certain extent the research findings
show a true picture of declining quality of education in Tanzania due to
recent rapid expansion of enrolment in primary, secondary and higher
education levels.
In her reply to a basic question from
Susan Lyimo (Special Seats, Chadema), the Deputy Minister said that the
recent rapid expansion of primary and secondary education under Primary
Education Development Plan and Secondary Education Development Plan, had
inevitably affected quality.
“PEDP and SEDP successes led to an
increase in primary and secondary schools together with students and
brought up challenges on basic necessities such as teachers,
infrastructure, teaching and learning materials which affected the
quality of education in one way or another especially during the two
initial phases of the programmes (2002 - 2010), she said.
The Chadema lawmaker wanted to know to
what extent the Hakielimu research had reflected on the reality of the
state of education in Tanzania and what were the strategies by the
fifth-phase government to improve the quality of education in the
country.
The deputy minister said the quality of
education involved many issues including environment of education
provision which had been improved during that time.
She said there has been an increase in
recruitment of teachers where by the number of primary school teachers
increased from 132,409 in 2005 to 180,565 in 2014 and secondary school
teachers increased from 20,754 in 2005 to 80,529 in 2014.
The morale of the teachers to work in
rural areas had increased after the government improved necessary
infrastructure such as roads and access to electricity, water and
telecommunication services, she said.
Ms Manyanya said the fifth-phase
government has in place strategies to improve quality of education which
include improving teaching and learning environment through
constructing and rehabilitating school infrastructures.
These include construction of classrooms, laboratories, libraries, toilets, teachers’ houses and purchases of desks, she said.
The government also continues with
teachers training particularly for Science, Mathematics, Language and
basic education, she said adding the government continues to provide
trainings for teachers on ICT application, Science, Mathematics,
Language to improve efficiency in teaching and learning for primary and
secondary school teachers
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