Education bar set too high, CRC told

Iramba. Education should not be the only criterion that qualifies one to assume public office such as the presidency and member of Parliament, it was proposed during the ongoing Katiba assemblies in Iramba District.

The call was made by Mbelekesi ward councillor Monica Samwel when discussing the first draft of the new constitution at Iramba district headquarters. 

According to Mrs Samwel, the Constitution Review Commission should remove all provisions in the draft which set a certain level of education as a prerequisite for elective posts.

Article 75 (f) of the draft of the new constitution cites among other criteria that for someone to vie for the presidency he or she should at least hold a first degree from a recognised university. 

For its part, Article 117 (1)(b) requires someone who wants to vie for a Parliamentary seat to at least hold a Form Four certificate. 

However, Mrs Samwel said sanity, experience and patriotism should be the main criteria for someone to contest for a public office.

“Currently, we have professors who are ministers but that hasn’t stopped us from entering dubious contracts with investors simply because our leaders are not patriotic...they have put their own interests ahead of the public’s,” said Mrs Samwel.

Commenting on Section Seven, Article 68, which speaks about the presidency, Mr Haji Mkuju wanted the new constitution to restrict the number of people who are allowed to assume the presidency in the Head of State’s absence.

“Only the Vice President, the Prime Minister or the Speaker of the National Assembly or Chief Justice should be allowed to act as president if the Head of State is not in the country at a particular time,” said Mr Mkuju.

Article 73 (1) (A-C) indicates that apart from the Vice President and any senior minister is allowed to act as president in his or her absence.

Wanafunzi Kuripoti katika shule walizopangwa

WASICHANA-ALPHERBETICAL LIST 2013 

WAVULANA-ALPHERBETICAL LIST 2013

Muhula wa kwanza kwa wanafunzi wa Kidato cha Tano kuanzia mwaka huu 2013 itaanza mwezi Julai.

 Wanafunzi wamepangwa katika shule zenye miundombinu na walimu kwa masomo husika. 

Aidha, kama baadae upungufu utajitokeza, wakuu wa shule wameelekezwa kufanya taratibu za kuazima walimu wa muda na kutoa taarifa kwa uongozi wa halmashauri husika kuhusu upungufu wa walimu uliopo.

Kwa nafasi hii, ninaagiza wanafunzi wote kuripoti katika shule walizopangwa tarehe 29 Julai, 2013. 

 Kama kutakuwa na sababu yoyote ya msingi ya kuhamia shule nyingine, uhamisho wa kawaida utafanywa baada ya kuripoti shuleni kupitia kwa mkuu wa shule husika, Mkurugenzi wa Halmashuri/Manispaa na Katibu Tawala wa Mkoa.

 (Wizara haitabadilisha shule walizopangwa wanafunzi)

Wanaporipoti wanatakiwa kuwa na:    
Original Result slip na Living Cerificate

Trying times in education for children with disability

Cosmas Mnyanyi (left), Open University of Tanzania consultant

Findings of a ground-breaking report due for release today highlights the huge challenges in education facing children living with disability who study alongside able-bodied ones.

The findings form part of a comprehensive report investigating the realities of children with disability in Coastal Region and are being used as the starting point to bring down barriers.

The report, which is authored by Open University of Tanzania consultant Cosmas Mnyanyi, says the aim is to get both children with disability and others studying effectively together.

It is widely acknowledged that only between 3 and 5 per cent of children with disability in Tanzania go to school, a fact that resulted in the National Strategy in Inclusive Education initiated in 2009.

These latest findings suggest that the few who have made it into school face a wide range of challenges, chiefly a lack of assistive devices such as Braille machines for the visually impaired, hearing aids and ramps and access points for children using wheelchairs.

Additionally, there are very few teachers who have qualifications and understanding of disability issues, a shortage of data on types of disability, a scarcity of workshops where crafts and trades can be taught, as well as issues facing all children such as a shortage of books and classroom space.

Details of the report will be shared at a launch in Kibaha, Coast Region, today. It is expected to bring together children with disability, their parents or guardians, teachers as well as those involved in education and those campaigning for the rights of people living with disability.

According to ADD International, one of the organisations that commissioned the report, the findings form the first step in a five-year plan to increase greater access to schools and improve educational performance and achievements.

“Now, as a result of this report, the realities of being a child with disability are there for all of us to see,” says the organisation’s country director for Tanzania, Sixbert Mzee, adding: “Together with other campaigners and supporters we have to ensure that we work even harder to bring down barriers – first in Coast Region and then across Tanzania.”

ADD International chief executive Tim Wainwright will be among those gracing the launch along with high-ranking officials from the Education and Vocational Training ministry, the Health and Social Welfare ministry, representatives of organisations of people with disability), NGOs and other stakeholders.

Organisers of the launch have expressed hope for a brighter future and there is consensus in the report that, despite the daunting challenges children with disability face in schools, all children should study together in an inclusive environment.

ADD International, the Education and Vocational Training ministry and organisations of people living with disability are collaborating in promoting an accessible and inclusive world where men, women and children with disability are able to enjoy their rights and responsibilities and participate as fully as they choose at every level of society.

“We started to work as an international organisation in 1985 and work with disable people in Africa and Asia. We have been working in Tanzania for more than 16 years,” says an ADD spokesperson, adding: “Our experience indicates that the realisation of national, regional and global objectives and goals cannot be achieved unless people living with disability are effectively included in mainstream development.”

Through Between the Posts Productions, a UK-based media production and broadcast consultancy company specialising in media delivery to Africa, ADD is involving the Tanzanian media in this campaign to highlight these issues. It is doing so by offering creative and strategic recommendations to optimise relevant broadcast opportunities to underline the need for inclusive education for children with disability.

 

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

YALIYOJIRI NDANI YA JENGO LA GEL ,KATIKA MAONYESHO YA 77.

Juma ,Marketing Executive, Dar es Salaam Headquarters, akitoa ufafanuzi juu ya huduma zinazotolewa na GLOBAL EDUCATION LINK LTD.

Abraham Kiishweko, Arusha Branch Manager, Gel. Akichambua vyuo tunavyopeleka wanafunzi kusoma nje ya nchi kwa maana ya CHINA,INDIA,MALAYSIA,UKRAINE,USA,CANADA na UK.

Jackie Bomboma, Marketing Executive, Dar es Salaam Headquarters.Akijadili urahisi wa kwenda kusoma nje, upatikanaji wa huduma za malazi na gharama za kwenda nje. 

Arnold,Student, From Maharishi University INDIA.Akitoa ushauri juu ya kozi mbalimbali na namna zilivyo na pia kuonyesha gharama za kozi hizo. 

Jackie akifafanua mchakato mzima wa kwenda nje kusoma, nchi zenye gharama nafuu na vitu vya msingi anavyopaswa kufahamu kila mtu kabla ya kwenda nje ya nchi.

Abdulmalik Mollel, Mkurugenzi Mtendaji, akifafanua namna mwanafunzi anavyoweza kupata udahili nje ya nchi kupitia GLOBAL EDUCATION LINK.

 Mollel akiwashauri wateja juu ya kozi zenye manufaa na namna wanavyoweza kupata nafasi katika vyuo vya nje ya nchi na gharama za kwenda huko.

PHOTOS: 37th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair

 Global Education Link Ltd. (GEL)

Staff wa GEL wakiongozwa na Mkurugenzi wa Udahili, Zakia Nassor(Wa 5 kutoka kushoto).

Global Education Link ni mawakala wa vyuo vya nje ya nchi,tunadahili wanafunzi katika vyuo vya INDIA, MALAYSIA,UKRAINE,UK,USA na CHINA.

(Kutoka Kulia) Arnold, Yusufu na James.

(Kutoka kushoto) Eliza, Fredrick(BCOM Sharda University,India) na Mariam(Brunel University,London)

Marketing Executive, Juma akizungumza na wateja.

Vijana wa GEL wakiwa wamejikoki kukuhudumia watakaohudhuria katika maonyesho.

Jengo letu la GEL linatazamana na Jengo la TRA, usikose kufika.

GEL tunafanya kazi kwa ushirikiano kwa lengo la kuwapatia watu wote information zote wanazopaswa kufahamu kuhusu kusoma nje ya nchi.

PPF to cover A level students too

PPF Pension Fund public relations manager Lulu Mengele (R) briefs journalists in Dar es Salaam yesterday on achievements the Fund has made since it was set up just under 35 years ago. 

The Parastatal Pension Fund (PPF) has extended its ‘Education Benefit’ clause to now include ‘A’ level students of its members who pass away while in service but the fund has made clear that details into the expansion will be made public come October of this year, PPF’s 35th anniversary.

Only in April this year, the fund celebrated 10 years since the introduction of the ‘Education Benefit scheme’ which until now covered only nursery and primary school children and secondary (‘O’ level) school students.

Ten years ago the benefit was launched with only three children and now covers well over 1000 children attending some 765 schools in both Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar, out of which 315 are primary schools and 450 are secondary schools both private and government owned.

Last year alone, the Fund reported having spent a total of 682m/- to cover school fees of more than 1,330 children whose parents passed away and had given the fund at least 3 years worth of contributions.

Thanks to a rewarding system by PPF, it is funded children are reportedly performing well above average and even with the nation wide mass failure last year, the ‘fund’s children’ apparently did exceptionally well.

The well performing fund proudly announces that, 3.7bn/- is paid to 25, 607 pensioners on a monthly basis and that the benefits are paid without any sell of assets or borrowing of money from other financial institution.

Lulu Mengele, the Public Relations and Marketing announced that from July 1st to July 5th this year, her security fund would have a ‘Customer Service Week’ where the general public is invited to have their questions answered by PPF directors who will avail themselves at PPF offices in Ilala, Temeke and Kinondoni.

PPF was established by the PPF Pensions Fund Act [Cap 372 R.E. 2002], with the objective of providing pension and other related benefits such as disability, survivor, withdrawal, education, gratuity, death and old age to all employees in the Parastatal and private sectors of the economy.

The fund was started in 1978 as part of the National Insurance Corporation with an initial capital of 50mn/- that value is now up to 1.3trn/-. 

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

UDOM students volunteer to teach in ward schools

Several University of Dodoma students have promised to volunteer at various schools during their upcoming vacations.

In response to a call by former Prime Minister, Edward Lowassa who asked university students and alumni to step up to the many challenges facing the education system particularly the community secondary schools.

He was speaking to a host of students from the University of Dodoma (UDOM) who paid him a visit at his residence in the Dodoma Municipality on Monday evening.

The visiting students are among those who were studied in ward secondary schools built during Lowassa’s premiership in the national drive to increase enrolment.

Chairman of the students’ association, Victor Mbonica expressed extreme gratitude to the former PM on behalf of his colleagues. He pointed out that it is because of the community schools that they are now at the verge of completing their university degrees and to join the nation’s work force.

It is at this point that, on behalf of his accompanying students, he responded to Lowassa’s call urging them to help improve the community secondary schools.

Mbonica pledged that during their upcoming long vacation, he and many other UDOM students will volunteer at various community secondary schools in their respective districts and wards.

They however requested Lowassa, whom some reportedly bid to join the presidential race under the CCM ticket, to afford the schools funding in cash and kind noting that they lack books and other teaching materials and most do not have sufficient desks and chairs, factors that play a key part in students’ attendance and performance.
 

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

Schoolgirls need books, not husbands

PRIMARY school pupils  in Sumbawanga municipality have literally accused their parents to the acting Regional Commissioner (RC) for Rukwa, Mr Iddy Kimanta, for withdrawing some of their number in order to marry them off suitors, for a dowry.

The pupils, whose bitterness in connection with the maltreatment was reflected in a message that was read to the RC at a public rally in Kanondo village, appealed for comprehensive government intervention.

They were concerned that dropping out of school denied them education and that getting married at a tender age amounted to illegal child marriage.

Some parents, they claimed, force their daughters out of school so they can help out in household chores.

The RC also heard that some parents ordered their schooling daughters to look for casual labour so they help support the family financially. Some of the girls joined domestic servitude.

Other sought menial jobs as waiters in bars and guest houses. And there are those who join the rabid world of prostitution and fall prey to sexual predators.

The RC wa incensed, to say the least. He told the gathering that parents who would terminate the education of their children would meet the wrath of the law.

Marrying off young girls to husbands is an old tradition that can be traced back to numerous generations.It remains persistent today. 

The practice is one of the principal causes of the now numerous pregnancy complications in young mothers.

Most under-age marriages fail to work.Unfortunately, traditions are so powerful in many parts of Tanzania, especially among the Wamasai, Wakurya, Wahehe, Waha and Wahaya. Traditions also die hard among the Wagogo and Wasukuma.

Of particular concern to the state is the large number of pregnancy complications among young girls whose bodies are not yet ready to bear children.

These include the possibility of obstetric fistula. Women who have the fistula are often the very young girls who are married very early, before reaching the age of 15 years for example, who are too poor to attend health services and try to deliver at home.

These young mothers are also often ignorant about motherhood.An obstetric fistula can occur because the woman's pelvis is too small; the baby's head is too big or the baby is badly positioned; the woman can be in labour for five days or more without medical help and other unfortunate reasons.

In most cases the baby dies.If the mother survives, she is left with tissue damage to her birth canal that renders her incontinent-either of her bladder or bowel functions. This is the beginning of a medically pathetic situation for the young mother.

So, child marriages must be treated with the contempt they deserve.Schoolgirls need books--not husbands.

Wengi wafaulu kidato cha sita

Naibu Katibu Mkuu wa Baraza la Mitihani la Taifa (NECTA), Dk Charles Msonde akitangaza matokeo ya mtihani wa kidato cha sita kwa mwaka 2013, kwa waandishi wa habari jijini Dar es Salaam jana. Picha na Fidelis Felix 

Dar es Salaam. Baraza la Mitihani Nchini (Necta), limetangaza matokeo ya kidato cha sita ambapo asilimia 87.85 wamefaulu huku kundi la shule 20 za mwisho likitawaliwa na shule kongwe nchini na zile za Zanzibar.

Akitangaza matokeo hayo jana, Kaimu Katibu Mtendaji wa baraza hilo, Dk Charles Msonde, alisema watahiniwa 50,611 walifanya mtihani huo na kati yao 44,366 sawa na asilimia 87.85, wamefaulu.

Mwaka 2012 wanafunzi waliofaulu mtihani huo walikuwa ni 46,658 sawa na asilimia 87.65.

Watahiniwa wa shule

Dk Msonde alisema kuwa, watahiniwa wa shule waliofaulu ni 40,242 sawa na asilimia 93.92 ya waliofanya mtihani huo.

“Wasichana waliofaulu ni 13,286 sawa na asilimia 95.80 na wavulana 26,956 sawa na asilimia 93.03,” alisema.

Mwaka 2012 watahiniwa 40,775 sawa na asilimia 92.30 walifaulu mtihani huo.

Watahiniwa wa kujitegemea

Alisema kuwa, watahiniwa wa kujitegemea waliofanya mtihani huo walikuwa ni 7,659 na waliofaulu ni 4,124 sawa na asilimia 53.87.

Ufaulu katika kundi hili umeshuka ikilinganishwa na mwaka 2012 ambapo watahiniwa waliofaulu walikuwa ni 5,883 sawa na asilimia 64.96 ya wote waliofanya mitihani hiyo.

Ufaulu kwa madaraja

Matokeo hayo yanaonyesha kuwa, watahiniwa 325 sawa na asilimia 0.76 ya wote waliofanya mtihani huo walipata daraja la kwanza, kati yao wavulana wakiwa ni 188 sawa na asilimia 0.65 na wasichana 137 sawa na asilimia 0.99.

Waliopata daraja la pili ni 5,372 sawa na asilimia 12.54 wavulana wakiwa ni 3,142 sawa na asilimia 10.84 na wasichana 2,230 sawa na asilimia 16.08. 

Waliopata daraja la tatu ni 30,183 sawa na asilimia 70.45 wavulana wakiwa ni 20,442 sawa na asilimia 70.55 na wasichana 9,741 sawa na asilimia 70.24.

Watahiniwa waliopata daraja la nne 4,362 sawa na asilimia 10.18 ya wote waliofanya mtihani huo huku wavulana wakiwa ni 3,184 sawa na asilimia 10.99 na wasichana 1,178 sawa na asilimia 8.49.

Waliofeli ni 2,604 sawa na asilimia 6.08 wavulana wakiwa 2,021 sawa na asilimia 6.97 na wasichana 583 sawa na asilimia 4.20.

Shule za Zanzibar zaboronga

Matokeo hayo yanaonyesha kuwa, shule kutoka Zanzibar zimefanya vibaya ambapo katika kundi la shule 10 za mwisho zenye watahiniwa zaidi ya 30, saba zinatoka kwenye visiwa hivyo.

Kwa upande wa shule zenye watahiniwa chini ya 30, nne zinatoka Unguja huku shule nyingine kongwe zilizokuwa zikifanya vizuri mwaka huu zimevuta mkia.

Kwa upande wa shule 10 za mwisho zenye watahiniwa zaidi ya 30 ya kwanza kutoka mwisho ni 

Pemba Islamic College (Pemba), 

 Mazizini (Unguja), 

Bariadi (Simiyu),

 Hamamni (Unguja), 

Dunga (Unguja), 

Lumumba (Unguja),

 Osward Mang’ombe (Mara), 

Green Acres (Dar es Salaam), 

High View International (Unguja) 

na Mwanakwerekwe (Unguja).

Shule zilizofanya vizuri zenye watahiniwa chini ya 30, 

ya kwanza kutoka mwisho ni 

Mbarali Preparatory (Unguja), 

Philter Federal (Unguja), 

St Mary’s (Dar es Salaam, 

Mzizima (Dar es Salaam),

 Hijra Seminary (Dodoma), 

Tweyambe (Kagera), 

Mpapa (Unguja), 

Al-Falaah Muslim (Unguja), 

Presbyterian Seminary (Morogoro)

 na Nianjema (Morogoro).

Shule zilizofanya vizuri

Shule 10 bora katika kundi lenye watahiniwa chini ya 30, 
ya kwanza ni

 Palloti Girls (Singida), 

St. James Seminary, 

Parane na Sangiti (zote Kilimanjaro),

 Itamba (Njombe), 

Masama (Kilimanjaro),

 Kibara (Mara), 

St.Luise Mbinga Girls (Ruvuma), 

St. Peters Seminary (Morogoro)

 na Peramiho Girls (Ruvuma).

Shule 10 bora katika kundi lenye watahiniwa zaidi ya 30,

 ya Kwanza ni 

Mariani Girls (Pwani), 

Mzumbe (Morogoro), 

Feza Boys (Dar es Salaam), 

Iliboru na Kisimiri (zote kutoka Arusha), 

St Mary’s Mazinde juu (Tanga), 

Tabora Girls (Tabora),

 Igowole (Iringa), 

Kibaha (Pwani) 

na Kifungilo Girls (Tanga).

Waliofaulu Sayansi

Waliofaulu vizuri kwenye masomo ya sayansi na michepuo yao kwenye mabano ni

 Erasmi Inyanse kutoka Iliboru (PCM), 

Maige Majuto kutoka Kisimiri Arusha (PCM), 

Gasper Mung’ong’o kutoka Feza boys Dar es Salaam (PCM),

 Gasper Setus kutoka St. James Seminary Kilimanjaro (PCM) na msichana pekee kwenye kundi hili aliyeshika nafasi ya tano ni Lucylight Mallya kutoka Marian Gils Pwani (PCM).

Waliofaulu Biashara

Kundi hili linaongozwa na 

Eric Robert Mulugo Tusiime Dar es Salaam (ECA), 

Alicia Filbert kutoka Shule ya Ngaza Mwanza (ECA), 

Evart Edward, Kibaha Pwani (ECA), 

Annastazia Renatus Tambaza Dar es Salaam (ECA), 

Peterson Meena Mbezi Beach Dar es Salaam (ECA).

Lugha na Sayansi ya Jamii

Wa kwanza ni 

Asia Idd Mti kutoka shule ya Barbro-Johansson ya Dar es Salaam (HGE), 

Godlove Geofrey Ngowo kutoka shule ya Majengo Kilimanjaro (EGM), 

Jonson Elimbizi Macha kutoka shule ya Njombe iliyopo Njombe (EGM), 

Hamisi Joseph Mwita Iliboru Arusha (HGL) 

na Sia Sand Marian Girls Pwani (EGM).

Matokeo yaliyozuiliwa na kufutwa

Dk Msonde alisema kuwa, Necta imezuia matokeo ya watahiniwa 116 kutoka na sababu mbalimbali, 93 hawakulipa ada ya mtihani, 10 walipata matatizo ya kiafya na kushindwa kufanya baadhi ya mitihani na 17 walipata matatizo ya kiafya na hawakufanya mtihani hata mmoja.

Alisema pia kuwa, baraza hilo limefuta matokeo ya watahiniwa wanne kutokana na kubainika kufanya udanganyifu, kati yao mmoja akiwa ni mtahiniwa wa shule na watatu wa kujitegemea.

Wanafunzi Bora wazungumzia matokeo

SAID JUMA IRANDO2  

Dar es Salaam. Mwanafunzi bora wa kwanza kitaifa katika matokeo yaliyorekebishwa ya mtihani wa kidato cha nne uliofanyika mwaka 2012, Said Irando kutoka Shule ya Sekondari Feza ya jijini Dar es Salaam, ameeleza kushangazwa na matokeo hayo kwa kuwa hakuyatarajia.

Mwanafunzi huyo ambaye tayari ameshaanza masomo ya Kidato cha Tano katika Shule ya Sekondari Feza, alisema kuwa ingawa alisoma kwa bidii lakini hakudhani kama angeweza kushika nafasi ya kwanza kitaifa na kwamba anamini mafanikio yake kitaaluma yana ‘mkono wa Mungu’.

“Sikutegemea kabisa kuwa mwanafunzi bora, ingawa nilisoma kwa bidii kubwa nia yangu ilikuwa ni kutaka kufaulu tu; Ni Mungu amenisaidia,” alisema Irando.

Alisema kujituma katika masomo, mazingira mazuri ya kusomea na upatikanaji wa vifaa muhimu vya kujifunzia ndiyo yaliyomwezesha kusoma na kufanya vizuri.

Irando ambaye ni mtoto wa kwanza katika familia yenye watoto watatu, alisema kurekebishwa kwa matokeo ya kidato cha nne kulibadilisha alama za matokeo yake kutoka Daraja la kwanza akiwa na alama tisa hadi saba, zilizomfanya kuwa mwanafunzi bora kitaifa na mwafunzi bora wa kwanza kati ya wavulana kumi bora pia kitaifa.

Mwanafunzi huyo alibainisha kuwa pamoja na wazazi wake kuwa ni wafanyabiashara, yeye anatamani kuwa mhandisi ingawa bado hajajua atakuwa mhandisi katika tasnia gani.

“Natamani sana kuwa mhandisi hiyo ndiyo ndoto yangu ingawa bado sijajua nitakuwa mhandisi wa sekta gani,” alisema Irando.

Irando alisoma elimu ya msingi katika Shule ya Msingi J.K Nyerere ambako alifaulu na kuchaguliwa kujiunga na Sekondari Pugu, lakini wazazi wake waliamua kumpeleka Shule ya Sekondari Feza.

Naye mwanafunzi Joshua Azza kutoka Sekondari ya Wavulana Marian ambaye ameshika nafasi ya saba kitaifa kati ya wanafunzi kumi bora baada ya kupata daraja la kwanza akiwa na alama 11, alisema ameyapokea matokeo hayo kwa furaha akiamini atatimiza lengo lake la kuwa daktari wa upasuaji.

“Natarajia kuwa daktari wa upasuaji, kwa matokeo haya nadhani nitafanikiwa,” alisema Azza ambaye wazazi wake wote ni walimu alipozungumza na gazeti hili jana jijini Dar es Salaam.

Kwa upande wake Saidi Nchimbi kutoka Sekondari ya Feza, ambaye ameshika nafasi ya nane kati ya wanafunzi kumi bora kitaifa, alisema kuwa siku zote alikuwa akisoma kwa uwezo wake wote na kwamba alikuwa akitamani kufaulu kwenye mitihani yake yote aliyopewa.

Nchimbi amefanikiwa kushika nafasi hiyo baada ya kupata daraja la kwanza akiwa na alama nane. Katika matokeo ya awali mwanafunzi huyo alikuwa na alama 11.