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

>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.

>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.

>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.

>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...

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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 ...

>Women in Zanzibar are leading in the growing number of those filing for divorce (talak), it has emerged.

>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.

>For years, the success story of the Nile perch has been told in volumes and verses to the extent that this version of reality overshadows the impact of the fish on Lake Victoria.