EDITORIAL: Teachers deserve more

>Tomorrow is Teachers’ Day and it will be celebrated at national level in Kagera Region. As we mark this day, we should reflect on the plight of our teachers countrywide. We may have ward secondary schools virtually countrywide, but what those schools produce at the end of the learning cycle is often devastating.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

06 May

EDITORIAL: Midwives deserve better

>Tanzania yesterday joined other nations to mark International Day of Midwives, which was celebrated at national level in Musoma, Mara Region. Midwives play a key role not only in childbirth but also in ensuring both mother and baby survive the experience, given the high rate of child and maternal mortality in the country.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Aug

EDITORIAL: Mugabe’s right; liberation heroes deserve better

>If someone wants to justify mistreatment of a dog – so goes the moral of an old saying – the person starts off by giving the animal, which, paradoxically, is known as man’s best friend, a bad name. There are, in that saying, echoes of the shabby treatment that  Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe  is subjected to by the Western world.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Oct

EDITORIAL: Push for more teachers

>A recent Unesco report on teacher availability shows Tanzania is the ninth most needy country in the world. To end the shortfall, says the report released by the UN agency’s Institute of Statistics, the country must recruit at least 406,600 teachers by 2030. That is only 15 years from now!

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Dec

EDITORIAL: Appreciate teachers’ role

>We could not agree more with some critics on the need to go beyond quantity and look at the quality of the education being given to our young ones.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

27 Apr

EDITORIAL: Treat teachers decently

>The era is long gone in Tanzania, when someone’s name being prefixed by ‘Mwalimu’ was a great honour. Nyerere’s association with the education sector consolidated his popularity, by being informally designated as teacher of his countrymen, after becoming a full-time politician.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Mar

EDITORIAL: Beware crooked teachers!

>Despite criticism and even condemnation from educational psychologists, the practice of giving the so-called pre-Form 1 or pre-Form 5 training continues to thrive.

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

25 May

Kikwete to bid teachers farewell at Teachers' Union meeting

IPPmedia
Kikwete to bid teachers farewell at Teachers' Union meeting
IPPmedia
President Jakaya Kikwete is tomorrow expected to officiate the ninth annual general meeting (AGM) of the Tanzania Teachers' Union (TTU) to be held in Arusha's Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge. He is also expected to use the opportunity to bid farewell to teachers ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

05 Feb

They too deserve to live

Reports that there are over 170 children living with HIV in Ilemela and Nyamagana districts who do not receive any medical attention are cause for great concern, to say the very least.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Feb

Women deserve more respect

Despite sustained campaigns against gender-based violence and discrimination against women, most Tanzanians still consider the female of the species inferior to men.

 

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