What UDOM’s Njombe campus means for higher education sustainability drive
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Dodoma, Prof Lughano Kusiluka (third right, in a blue and orange hi-vis vest), listens to site foreman Ms Teopista Mgani during an inspection of the administration block under construction at the UDOM’s Njombe Campus. All six buildings at the site are scheduled for completion by May 26 this year. PHOTO | JACOB MOSENDA
Njombe. Tanzania’s ambition to take higher education closer to its people is steadily taking shape in the Southern Highlands, as the University of Dodoma (UDOM) intensifies construction of its first-ever campus in Njombe Region.
The campus, being constructed under the government-backed Higher Education for Economic Transformation (HEET) project and valued at Sh20 billion, according to local experts, is a strategic intervention in a country where access to university education has for decades been geographically uneven.
