Government targets skills-based curriculum
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The government has said it is ongoing with collecting views from education stakeholders to overhaul the curriculum, in a bid to equip Tanzanian students with the employable skills.
Dar es Salaam. In an effort to produce employable graduates, the government is working with education stakeholders to review existing education curriculum.
The government has said this plan is aimed at developing competence-based curriculum, which emphasizes on result end learning process, for primary and secondary education levels.
Deputy Minister in the President’s Office for Regional Administration and Local Government, Mr Josephat Kandege, said here yesterday that the government was ready to receive recommendations from key education stakeholders in order to improve the curriculums.
“Review of the curriculum will be conducted to provide job market with graduates who have employable skills,” said the Deputy Minister while opening the 10th Annual Quality Education Conference (QEC).
Under the theme ‘Collective Accountability and Quality Education for Self-Reliance, the conference jointly organised by Tanzania Education Network (TenMet) and Right To Play, brought together key education stakeholders to discuss on quality of education.
Mr Kandege informed the meeting that the government would work on deliberations reached in the meeting, noting that the state conducts review of curriculum to enable fresh graduates cope with current socio-economic changes.
“Half of graduates in East Africa are currently lacking employable skills hence posing a challenge in landing jobs,” observed the deputy Minister.
QEC 2018 Committee Chairman, Mr Enea Mhando, said the two-day conference provide key education stakeholders with a platform to discuss, analyze and provide solutions on quality education for self-reliance to improve the country’s education system.
The conference meeting discussed Competence based Teaching and Learning Approach towards Education for Self-Reliance and Industrial Economy.
Country Director for Right To Play, Ms Josephine Mukakalisa, sad integrating gender sensitive child centred play based learning methodologies into teaching practices was vital to improve learning for girls and boys.
