Exams Big Results Now stuns pundits

Zanzibar. Some 98.87 per cent of Form Six finalists who sat their national examinations earlier in the year have passed, the National Examinations Council of Tanzania (Necta) announced here yesterday.

To the government, the just-released National Form Four exam results were impressive, but to some stakeholders, they are a product of fabrication and alteration of grades to depict the politically desirable Big Results Now (BRN) outcome — at the expense of the country’s education system.

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The government's Big Results Now (BRN) initiative is said to be affecting Local Government Capital Development Grant (LGCDG) projects in that the money used to implement it is that meant for the latter projects. Presenting a paper on Efficiency and ...

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Only 16 pct aware of Big Results Now
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Only 16 percent of Tanzanians say they have heard about the programme called Big Results Now though the government plans to release the first annual report on its implementation this September. According to research findings by Twaweza released in ...

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Katibu Mtendaji wa Mpango wa Afrika Kujitathmini Kiutawala Bora (APRM) tawi la Tanzania, Rehema Twalib ametoa pongezi kwa Rais Jakaya Kikwete na Serikali ya Tanzania kwa kuanzisha Kitengo cha Utekelezaji wa Miradi Mikubwa ili kutekeleza Mpango wa Matokeo Makubwa Sasa.
Bi Rehema alisema kuanzishwa kwa Kitengo hicho chini ya Ofisi ya Rais (PDB) ni sehemu ya utekelezaji wa maoni ya wananchi wengi ambapo walipohojiwa katika tathmini ya APRM waliainisha changamoto kubwa ya...

Dar keen on scaling up 'Big Results Now'
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PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete has expressed the government's intention to expand the scope of the Big Results Now (BRN) initiative by scaling it up to bring on board all sectors in the near future. President Kikwete made the remarks in Dar es Salaam on ...

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Two laws for review to boost Big Results Now
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Presidential Delivery Bureau (PDB) Chief Executive Officer, Omar Issa, gestures as he addresses media personnel yesterday in Dar es Salaam. The President's Delivery Bureau (PDB) has said the country's Public Procurement Act, 2004 and the Public Private ...
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>Lack of enough experts to execute projects under the ‘Big Results Now’ (BRN) has been cited as among setbacks in implementation of such initiatives.

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First Big Results Now annual report out today
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The government is today expected to release the first Big Results Now (BRN) annual report of six National Key Result Areas (NKRAs), agriculture, education, energy, transport, water and resource mobilisation. Published in line with the foundation of the BRN ...
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