Tanzania Educational Outcomes Mis-Linking Employment: Failure to Attain National Educational and Trainining Target
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https://doi.org/10.61538/jipe.v8i1.182Abstract
Based on research (or the implementation of Tanzania education policy concerning the education and training Targets interviewing principals, head teachers and other staff plus students in a sample of secondary education and tertiary colleges, this paper presents a national picture of the new relations (with regard to training and employment) of Vocational Training Centres (VTCs), colleges, secondary schools and schemes in the competition for students and trainees as well as employment opportunities before the inauguration of new education policy on early 2015. The article is silent on the new policy issues. It reveals common emerging patterns together with variations and relates them to the new mixed economy of the country provision of learning in 'the contracting situation'. The unlikelihood of reaching the revised national targets is related to the competition between VTCs, colleges and schools that has resulted from the new 'knowledge policy' supported by the government new approach of increasing the number of secondary schools and colleges ‘un-linearly’. In relation to the recent shift of the Departments of primary and secondary education to the Ministry of Local Government leaving employment issues under the Ministry of labour have created a jargon among the populace who are referring this situation to as a policy of 'Education Without Employment'.ÂReferences
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