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.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 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

04 Oct

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.

 

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

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.

 

9 years ago

Daily News

26 Aug

Need to campaign decently

Need to campaign decently
Daily News
THE campaigns for this year's general election, slated for October, have just begun. CCM launched theirs with much pomp and pageantry in Dar es Salaam last Sunday. There are indications that Chadema will kick-start their campaigns in the city on Saturday.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Nov

Allow Mawazo's people to mourn him decently

The ban the police imposed on mourners seeking to give a final farewell to the fallen Chadema chairman in Geita Region Alphonce Mawazo violates rights and freedoms which Tanzanians have enjoyed since independence.

 

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

16 Apr

Treat drug addicts humanely

A recent report of the Tanzania Drug Control Commission indicates that there are 4,684 registered addicts.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Jan

Dilemma: How to treat the angry patient

The narrator asked: “Are you going to be a victim or a survivor-protector”? I am an obstetrician, and I was taking my annual online course on “workplace violence.”

 

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