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Quality education is
the pillar of national development, for it is through education that the
nation obtains skilled manpower to serve in various economic sectors.
It is through quality education Tanzania will be able to create a strong
economy which can spur development and enable the country to adapt to
changing market and technological conditions regionally and globally. It
is thus important to ensure that pupils attend classes without fail and
teachers do what is expected of them.
The Education ministry should ensure that children get proper education instead of leaving individual schools to start special schedules as is the case at Lukonga Primary School in Kilolo District, where pupils attend classes in shifts owing to a shortage of classrooms. The school does not have enough classrooms to accommodate pupils from nursery to Standard Five. The school also does not have teachers’ houses, forcing them to walk about ten kilometres to and from school daily. It will not be asking too much of the ministry and other education stakeholders to address these obstacles that hinder learning. It is issues such as these that are relatively easy to tackle that eventually lead to painfully poor performances in national examinations. A case in point is last year’s Form Four examination in which over 60 per cent of the candidates failed. |
