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1 United Republic of Tanzania Mainland Education for All 2015 National Review This report was prepared by the relevant national authorities in view of the World Education Forum (Incheon, Republic of Korea, 19 22 May 2015). It was submitted in response to UNESCO s invitation to its Member States to assess progress made since 2000 towards achieving Education for All (EFA). The views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not commit UNESCO . The designations employed and the presentation of material do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNESCO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

2 The paper can be cited with the following reference: Education for All 2015 National Review Report: United Republic of Tanzania Mainland . For further information, please contact: THE United Republic OF Tanzania ministry OF EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING EDUCATION FOR ALL (EFA) REPORT FOR Tanzania Mainland November, 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS .. i LIST OF TABLES .. vi LIST OF FIGURES .. viii CHAPTER ONE .. 1 Tanzania Mainland CONTEXT .. 1 Geographical Location .. 1 History.

3 2 Demographic Context .. 3 3 Human Resources .. 5 Table 1: Labour Market Requirements by Occupational Category .. 6 Gender .. 7 Tanzania s Education Sector .. 7 Structure and Progression .. 7 Commitment to implement EFA Goals and targets .. 8 CHAPTER TWO .. 10 PROGRESS TOWARDS ACHIEVING EDUCATION FOR ALL GOALS .. 10 GOAL ONE: Expanding and Improving Comprehensive Early Childhood Care and Education, especially for the Most Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Children.. 10 Background to Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in Tanzania 10 Definition of ECCE.

4 11 Progress Made Since 2000 to 11 Regional Variations of Enrolment (GIR and NIR) 15 Health .. 18 Challenges and opportunities .. 19 Recommendations .. 20 | Page ii GOAL TWO: Ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities have access to and complete free and compulsory primary education of good quality .. 21 Introduction .. 21 Primary Education in Tanzania .. 21 Policies Guiding the Education Sector and Universal Primary Education .. 22 Targets.

5 23 PROGRESS IN ACHIEVING THE TARGETS .. 23 Access to Primary Education .. 23 Participation in Primary Education .. 25 Repetition Rate by grade in primary education .. 31 Transition Rate from Primary to Secondary Education .. 34 Special Needs Education .. 35 Pupils with Disabilities in Primary Schools by Disabilities, 2008 2013 37 Non formal Education (NFE) .. 37 Efforts to Improve Provision of Primary Education .. 41 Financing of Primary Education 2002 2012 .. 42 Challenges .. 43 Recommendations .. 43 GOAL THREE: Ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life skills programmes.

6 44 Introduction .. 44 Policies, Strategies, Plans and Targets for Implementing EFA Goal 3 .. 45 Contextualizing Life Skills in Tanzania .. 48 Notable interventions and achievements .. 49 Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) 50 Literacy Rates .. 57 Educational Attainment: .. 58 | Page iii Secondary Education: .. 59 Transition Rate from Ordinary to Advanced Secondary Education 60 Technical Education and Training (TET) .. 61 Vocational Education and Training (VET) .. 62 Graduates in Vocational Education and Training and Folk Development Colleges.

7 63 Tertiary Education: .. 64 Achievements in TVET .. 64 Challenges (TVET) .. 65 Challenges for Life Skills .. 65 Recommendations (Life Skills) .. 65 Recommendations (TVET) .. 66 Challenges and Recommendations on HIV & AIDS .. 66 Recommendations .. 66 GOAL 4: Achieving a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults .. 67 Introduction .. 67 Policy Thrusts .. 68 Programmes Implemented .. 68 Basic and Post Literacy .. 69 Continuing Education.

8 69 Achievements in Adult Literacy and Continuing Education .. 70 Enrolment of Out of School Youth 71 Enrolment of adults in Basic and Continuing Education 71 Role of NGOs in Provision of Literacy .. 75 INNOVATIVE 76 Financing of Adult and Continuing Education .. 77 Challenges in Adult Literacy and Continuing Education provision .. 78 | Page ivRecommendations .. 79 Goal 5: Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005 and achieving gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls' full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality.

9 80 Introduction .. 80 Government Commitments to promote gender equality .. 81 Implementation, Achievements and Challenges .. 82 Female enrolment as percentage of total enrolment by level of education (pre primary, primary, ordinary and advanced secondary education) .. 83 Primary Education .. 87 Secondary Education .. 95 Completion rate for secondary Form 4 and Form 6 in 2008 2011 .. 100 Gender Parity Index for enrolment in Teacher Education .. 100 GPI for Enrolment in Technical Institutions .. 101 GPI for Enrolment of learners in ICBAE learning centres 2000.

10 101 Challenges .. 101 Recommendations .. 102 GOAL 6: IMPROVING ALL ASPECTS OF THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION AND ENSURING EXCELLENCE OF ALL SO THAT RECOGNIZED AND MEASURABLE LEARNING OUTCOMES ARE ACHIEVED BY ALL ESPECIALLY IN LITERACY, NUMERACY AND ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILLS .. 103 Introduction .. 103 Definition of the Term Quality Education .. 103 Early Childhood Care and Education .. 104 Improvement of Quality in the Provision of Primary Education by the year 105 Improvement of quality of assessment in primary, secondary and teacher education.