Steps to rais the quality of Education

By Unknown - Jul 26, 2012

The Government has refuted claims that the current decline in education quality is fueled by failure or poor inspection in both primary and secondary schools in the country.

Deputy Minister for Education and Vocation Training Phillipo Mulugo said this when responding to a supplementary question asked by Ngara legislator (CCM), Deogratias Ntukamazina.

In his question the MP had claimed that decline in education quality in the country was attributed by the government to failure to support school inspectors to perform their duties.
“Weakening of education quality in the country has been fueled by teachers, students and parents’ dishonesty,” he said.

The minister accused head teachers and school masters of colluding with parents in exchange for bribes to register students who failed in their primary school final examinations.

The minister also attributed the limited budget allocated by the government to undertake school inspection as a challenge.
He said the current budget for school inspection to be fully conducted runs up to 13.6bn/- and that the government was making efforts to obtain the needed amount.
“Each fiscal year, the government allocates a budget for school inspection but it’s clear that the amount does cover the demand,” he said.

The minister added that currently there are 1601primary schools and 4367 secondary schools and that the government is planning to introduce an executive agency that will undertake inspection exercise of schools all over the country.

Meanwhile the minister Dr Shukuru Kawambwa has pledged to ensure sufficient teaching equipment in schools to promote quality education in the country.

Dr Kawambwa told the House that the government plans to re-grade students enrolled into teaching colleges to less than the 27 points of a division four graduate.

“We don’t want failures to teach our students. We want the more successful students to join teachers colleges,” he said.