Speaking in an exclusive interview with The Guardian yesterday in Dar es Salaam, CBE rector Prof Emanuel Mjema said that they planned to start offering masters degrees but lacked qualified lecturers to run the programme.
He said the signing of the MoU will help them have sufficient PhD lecturers to run the post graduate courses.
Prof Mjema also said that five lecturers will commence PhD studies in September, this year to be supervised by a professor from the University of Eastern Finland.
He said the college has 90 staff who will have to study for PhDs to enable them supervise masters degrees. Ten lecturers are currently studying for PhDs in different colleges in and outside the country.
“We have projected that after four years we will have more PhD lecturers in our college. our aim now is to provide quality education that will assist our students to compete in the labour market,” he said
He pointed out that apart from signing the MoU with the University of Eastern Finland, the CBE has also joined hands with University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa to exchange research methodologies and training in business administration.
As we sat to seek answers to the question of how we can make sure CBE’s academic production process is not flawed, there is no cheating in examinations, lecturers are not getting into lecture rooms to talk cheap and street politics and more importantly have a mechanism where we can be able to get a true picture of our students and lecturers conduct, then we came up with the idea of installing cameras in all lecture rooms,” noted the Rector.
The project involves 20 Security Cameras, which have been installed at CBE Main Campus, 13 of which were installed in normal lecture rooms, five in the Computer Lab and two in the Library.
Through the Security Control room, the office of Rector and the Deputy Rector responsible for Academics, Research and Consultancy (ARC) will be able to view what is happening in all the installed lecture rooms, Computer labs and Library at a time.
According to the Rector, the Camera installation drive which includes supply of Security Cameras, DVR, Dimensional keyboard and High Resolution LCD Monitor 22 has spent a total cost of TZS 66,300,000/=.
SOURCE:
THE GUARDIAN
