Over 50PC of students missing in kigoma schools

Kenya's government dismisses a claim that 166 students are still unaccounted for after the attack on Garissa University College.

The government has been slow to resolve the issue linked to the country's ethnic tensions.

Now students ignore private schools
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A new trend shows most students opt for public schools, owners of non-government schools and colleges noted in a meeting with government authorities in Dar es Salaam recently. They said the trend has negative impact on private schools given that the ...

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Use of Kiswahili in public schools hurting students' performance - don.
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The use of Kiswahili as the medium of instruction in public schools has been cited as a contributing factor for college graduates failure to access for local or international labour markets and therefore lack skills and strength in English language. “Tanzanians ...

More than 300 students fail to report to schools in Singida
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More than 300 students out of 2,171 who passed their national standard seven examinations last year in Singida rural district council, have failed to report to their respective schools until March this year for unknown reasons. The Acting secondary schools ...

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Tanzanian Schools Will Teach Students in Swahili, Not English
Global Voices Online
School children in Arusha, Tanzania. Photo released under Creative Commons by Flickr user Colin J. McMechan. Tanzania is set to make a historic shift away from English and replace it with Swahili as the language of instruction in the country's schools.

The National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) is proposing to change the current mode of assessment in secondary education to describe what individual learners have achieved annually, a top official at the centre has said.

260 students fail to report in Mwanga schools
Daily News
MORE than 260 students who were supposed to be in Form One this year in Mwanga District have not reported to school so far. Mwanga District Commissioner (DC), Mr Shaibu Ndemanga said here recently that reasons associated with such truancy include ...

Students' gambling craze worries parents, schools
Daily News
THE mushrooming of betting kiosks in urban areas in the country is worrying parents, guardians and school administrators as students take to gambling with zeal. In a survey conducted recently by the 'Sunday News,' the general consensus among the ...