Preparing the Next Generation in Tanzania: Challenges and Opportunities in Education (Directions in Development - Human Development) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1464805903 ISBN 13: 9781464805905

Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2015

Synopsis

Human capital encompasses a broad range of knowledge, skills, and capabilities for success in life and work;
quality education is the prerequisite for such capital accumulation. Investment in quality education provides
a nation with the workforce equipped to achieve increased productivity and growth.

Tanzania has established the goal of attaining middle-income country status by 2015. The country has
embraced a nationwide initiative to transform the educational system and prepare its youth to become
competitive members of the East African and global economic communities. Building on improvements in
access to primary and secondary education, the Big Results Now in Education program, launched in 2013,
provides a major vehicle for systemic change to improve service delivery and learning outcomes. Key
components for innovation and reform are improving teacher incentives and implementing accountability
systems.

Preparing the Next Generation in Tanzania: Challenges and Opportunities in Education provides a knowledge
base to inform policy makers as they continue to address educational issues. The authors focus the
discussion on areas for reform requiring continued attention: unequal access linked to income and gender,
poor quality of service delivery, weak and unequal learning outcomes, inefficient resources allocation across
educational levels and districts, and weak quality of administrative statistics. Having diagnosed and analyzed
the ongoing challenges, the authors enumerate opportunities; outlining the broad policy directions for
change to facilitate the program’s goals.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1464805903
• ISBN 13: 9781464805905
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Joshi Arun R., Gaddis Isis