SPECIAL REPORT: Ugandan’s memories of exciting learning experience in Tanzania

>ANSWER: A census has so much potential.  Almost every aspect of economic growth can be linked on census results. The 2012 census results will be very important in shaping Tanzania’s future because the data presents information on the characteristics of the population all the way to ward level.

>First, it was a Catholic Church that was hit before the bombers shifted their gun-sights to public rallies organised by Chadema—setting Arusha City, Tanzania’s tourist haven in panic mode. There was fear, chaos and blame game pitting the two major political parties, CCM and Chadema.

Dar es Salaam. It would be erroneous to give the impression that I was the only personnel manager to lose job during the cost-reduction exercise. Indeed, when I went for interview at Tanzania Audit Corporation (I was rejected for the post of personnel and training officer), I met fellow personnel managers with whom I had struck up acquaintance during the annual personnel managers’ symposium, who were also looking for jobs. Some of them had reached positions as directors, some like me...

>Tanzania has 53 banks. These are too many in a country where many households live on less than $2 (about Sh3,200) a day and  the majority people are financially illiterate.

>For years now, the decision by the government to invite and accommodate investors in large scale farming has divided the nation into two main groups—those who view this move as legalizing land grabbing and the other group that sees this move as a modern way of introducing commercial farming in Tanzania.

In 2013, the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC, and WWF—the leading organisation in wildlife conservation and endangered species—carried out a rapid assessment on the Tanzania and Mozambique border to establish the extent of illegal cross-border timber trade.

>For years now, the decision by the government to invite and accommodate investors in land has divided the nation into two main groups—those who views this move as legalizing land grabbing and the other group that sees this move as a modern way of introducing commercial farming in Tanzania.

New report stands by teacher welfare, quality learning
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THE newly-unveiled Tanzania Human Development Report has advocated teachers' needs and educational infrastructure as top priorities as the government struggles to improve the quality of education. Presenting the report at the Economic and Social ...

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High enrolment rate unmatched by learning skills, says report
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Despite school pupils being enrolled in big numbers across Tanzania every year, a recent report by Twaweza, a non-profit NGO, shows that the general increase in access to education has not been matched by improvement in learning outcomes. Twaweza ...