Minister of Education, Science and Technology Prof. Adolf Mkenda has said that the World Education Day for the year 2024 is being celebrated when Tanzania begins the journey of implementing the New Education and Training Policy for the Year 2014 Edition 2023 with new curricula.
Professor Mkenda giving greetings on the World Education Day celebration says some of the important things in the New Education and Training Policy is to start a procedure that will increase the time students stay in school from seven years to 10 years.
The leader has stressed that this first year of policy implementation, new curricula will start with students of primary education, first grade, third grade, first form for those who have taken the course of practical secondary education, fifth form who are expected starting in the middle of this year and the first year in teacher training colleges.
“For those who are in the third grade this year 2024, when they reach the sixth grade, will they have completed basic education and will they continue with four years of compulsory education to complete 10 years? .
Mkenda has said that the year 2027 is an important year for education reform because it is the year in which the sixth and seventh grades will be finishing primary education together.
He added that the reform of education has brought a special stream of practical training where it starts little by little and it is expected that there will be many secondary schools that prepare students for vocational training, that is vocational education and vocational education where for this year government schools have been able to satisfy providing practical education is 28 and personal 68.
Prof. Mkenda said the Government continues to implement the President’s orders. Samia Suluhu Hassan to ensure that all children who want to study must ensure that they get an education, so it continues to look for children who have stopped studying for any reason to give them the opportunity to return to school to study so that they can fulfill their dreams in the formal education system or alternative education.
Talking about students with special needs, the Minister of Education, Science and Technology has said that until now the government has spent about 4.5 billion/- for the purchase of teaching and learning equipment for students with special needs.
He added that those with major challenges, the government has added Patandi secondary school located in Arusha and Lukuledi primary school located in Masasi, has issued various guidelines including the construction of schools to ensure that children do not face infrastructure challenges and guidelines on how to ensure that children with special needs receive educational services even at home.
