EDITORIAL: Alternative education loans idea is brilliant

>The era of what was erroneously called free education but actually represented an almost fully government-subsidised education sector is long gone.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

09 Aug

EDITORIAL : Take idea of African integration to heart

Africa is tinkering with so many peripheral matters, fighting proxy wars and surrendering its wealth to foreign powers in the process, that it is leaving itself disunited and weary.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Jul

EDITORIAL: Boosting Govt Revenue Through fines a bad idea

The Traffic Police Division an intriguing statement on Tuesday when it announced that motorists will pay fines through mobile phone money transfer platforms.

 

9 years ago

IPPmedia

26 Sep

Education board to issue nondiscriminative loans

Education board to issue nondiscriminative loans
IPPmedia
The government will soon issue a guideline for Higher Education Students' Loans Board (HESLB) to ensure equal distribution of education loans to university entrants from both government and private schools. Deputy Minister for Health and Social Welfare ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Jul

EDUCATION: JK defends all-inclusive university loans policy

>President Jakaya Kikwete has said that his government would not change its position on giving loans to higher learning students studying in private universities because many parents didn’t have the ability to pay for their children’s fees without assistance from the government.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 May

EDITORIAL: Take education seriously

One of the key sectors currently under the Big Results Now (BRN) initiative is education. Clear targets have been set, along with deadlines. Ambitious pass rate goals for primary and secondary school performances come in the following order: 60 per cent in 2013, 70 per cent in 2014 and 80 per cent in 2015.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Jul

EDITORIAL: We need to rid ourselves of higher education craze

>In pre-market economy Tanzania, education system was guided by Education for Self-Reliance, the policy tailored by Tanu (and CCM after 1977). The guiding principle was that education should be geared at nurturing individuals able to apply what they learn in school or college.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Aug

EDITORIAL : Up quality of education offered to our children

Virtually all Tanzanian children of school-going age get a place in primary school. There is at least one secondary school in every ward, so almost every child who makes the grade gets admitted to Form One.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Sep

EDITORIAL: Revive adult education for universal literacy

As the world marks International Literacy Day (ILD) today, a Unesco initiative which was first celebrated on September 8 in 1966, we need to take stock of our situation in Tanzania.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Oct

EDITORIAL: Our education system must produce critical thinkers

>Besides empowering learners with the three Ws--reading, writing and arithmetic--education gives our children a clearer understanding of their environment so they survive and thrive in it.

 

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