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The intent of the letter was to seek travel permission and it started this way: “My mother in law has died and since I am responsible for her death I am requesting permission to travel for her funeral”.

Early Childhood Education (ECE): By the time some children reach kindergarten, they are already far behind their peers in skills and measures of school readiness. These educational gaps tend to be much more difficult and costly to close as children advance through elementary, middle and high school. This realisation has led many to try to get it right from the start by expanding their financial investments in pre-kindergarten services, with a goal to better prepare young children for school success. ECE consist of activities intended to effect developmental changes at the period of the greatest growth and development of the brain. Tanzania adopted ECE in 1995 as shown in Education and Training Policy (ETP). Most of the ECE activities are confined to the urban areas and I do not see MoE doing much. ECE requires specifically trained teachers and also a high level of parental involvement-I do not see any activity in this section of quality improvement perhaps the Minister of Education should tell the public what are they doing in ECE.

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THINKING ALOUD: Challenge is not enrolment, but how to get children to learn

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