Financing Education in Tanzania: Policy Transformations, Achievements and Challenges

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.