EDUCATION SPECIAL REPORT: Moshi Tech: From the cradle of engineers to shambolic state

>Once an academic giant producing the best engineers and technicians in the country, Moshi Technical Secondary School has lost its shine.  It is a far cry from the school that produced—in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s—such outstanding graduates in civil, mechanical and electrical engineering that they are now teaching in universities worldwide, including the United States.

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

19 May

EDUCATION SPECIAL REPORT: Universities everywhere, but are they worth it?

>In an attempt to raise primary school enrolment, the government dropped fees in 2001—and the response was well worth it. By 2009, 95 per cent of children were in school all the way from pre-primary to secondary level.

 

11 years ago

Deseret News

04 Apr

Special education teacher receives state award

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Special education teacher receives state award
Deseret News
MURRAY — A Murray City School District teacher has received a statewide award for special education. Myrlene Buck, a special education teacher at Horizon Elementary, was recently awarded the Utah Council for Exceptional Children Joanne Gilles ...
Govt, NECTA pledge to improve education, hire more teachersIPPmedia
Best schools for special awardDaily News

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11 years ago

TheCitizen

23 May

EDUCATION SPECIAL REPORT: Hostile environment in schools: The past meets the present

>Between May 21 and 25, 2007, I carried out a five-day survey on Teaching and Learning Processes in Secondary Schools in Same District, Kilimanjaro Region.The aim was to establish how teachers do their work, the methods they use, how and whether pupils are involved in the learning process and the role of parents in their children’s education.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

21 May

EDUCATION SPECIAL REPORT: Unhappy teachers can only deliver unhappy results, contends TTU

>The Tanzania Teachers’ Union (TTU) wants the government to pay teachers more than double their current earnings, based on the argument that unhappy teachers cannot work effectively. TTU Acting General Secretary Ezekiah Oluoch spoke with The Citizen staff writer Lucas Liganga on the burning issue in the teaching fraternity.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Apr

KATIBA REVIEW SPECIAL: Special education fund needed

>Today every Tanzanian knows that education for his or her child is not a privilege, but a right, which must be given to the child without any excuses. Both the current Constitution and the Law of the Child recognise this right. Fortunately enough, even the proposed Constitution has made this right clearer than ever in Article 52. Governments of all phases since independence have been doing reasonably well in expanding educational facilities for all levels of education to ensure Tanzanian...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

06 May

Education needs hi-tech boost

One of the key sectors that a nation must jealously protect the way one guards one’s eye pupils is education. It is education that shapes the future of a nation.

 

11 years ago

Trinidad News

14 Apr

Karim: PhD for Tech Voc Education soon

Karim: PhD for Tech Voc Education soon
Trinidad News
MINISTER of Tertiary Education and Skills Training, Senator Fazal Karim has announced the establishment of a PhD programme for Technical Vocational Education (TVET). He made the announcement at a lecture he delivered to a Masters of Arts in TVET ...
AfDB offers Tanzania $52.5 million for trainingEast African Business Week

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11 years ago

Poaching Campaign Ineffective

10 Feb

SPECIAL REPORT: Why anti

SPECIAL REPORT: Why anti-poaching campaign ineffective
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In recent years, Tanzania has witnessed a steep rise in poaching and other forms of crime targeting elephants and other wild animal species. The rate of killings is significantly greater than the elephants' capacity to reproduce. This has led many wildlife ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

09 Jan

SPECIAL REPORT: Why research on viral diseases

>Outbreaks of  viral diseases which are known to spread from animals to humans (known as Zoonotic diseases) can be so economically devastating and life threatening—the reason why future health research priorities should be reviewed to combat Zoonotic infections in Tanzania and Africa in general.

 

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