Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Pedagogy - School
System, Educational and School Politics, University of Dodoma (College
of Education), course: Policy Planning and Project Design in Education,
language: English, abstract: Financing Education in Tanzania: Policy
Transformations, Achievements and Challenges By Mohamed Msoroka
Assistant Lecturer University of Dodoma Executive Summary This paper
provides an analysis of the policy transformations/changes in the
financing of education in Tanzania. The paper surveys the
transformations being put in place in primary education, secondary
education and higher education/university in various periods to date.
The paper summarizes these policy transformations in a way to provide a
clear understanding of the situation to the reader. The paper gives the
achievements and challenges of the current policy changes in the
financing of education so as to help the provision of the third eye to
the reader to help him/her to make proper judgments and help to push the
wheel forward. The paper provides a summary of financing of primary and
secondary education before Primary Education Development Plan (PEDP) and
Secondary Education Development Plan (SEDP) and after PEDP and SEDP
respectively. Moreover, the achievements and challenges encounter the
PEDP and SEDP policies are also surveyed. In the higher/university
education, the paper reviews the issue of policy transformations in
financing of education since colonial era to date. It gives the
achievements and challenges facing the cost-sharing and privatization
policies in the higher education policies in Tanzania before arriving to
the conclusion.
