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Education
Review of right to play
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October 28, 2016

Right to Play (former Olympic Aid), is an athlete-driven international humanitarian organisation which uses sport and play as a development tool for children and youth. The central delivery method is through international volunteers who teach RTP modules to local coaches based in refugee camps, at schools, or in community based organisations. This review was commissioned… Read more

Children, Pakistan, refugees, Tanzania, Youth
Education
Incentivising national scale increases in reading skills in Tanzania
Blog
June 24, 2016

Late in 2015 I jointly posted with Dr. Abhijeet Singh of the Young Lives team in Oxford: Getting learning assessments right when money depends on it about a novel, national scale experiment that directly links financial aid for education to improvements in student learning outcomes. We outlined some of the risks, both statistical and political,… Read more

Learning, Tanzania
Education
Gender
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Affirmative action, gender equity and university admissions – Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
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May 12, 2016

This article examines the outcomes of affirmative action policies aimed at improving access for women students to university education in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Different interpretations of affirmative action are found in the three countries. These include lower entry scores, remedial pre-university programmes and financial assistance. There are limitations and weaknesses inherent in the piecemeal… Read more

gender and education, Kenya, Tanzania, Tertiary Education, Uganda, women's education
Education
Learning direct
Blog
April 8, 2016

On 18th March, what must have qualified as the hottest and most humid day ever in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I braved the heat and clogged rapid bus transit lanes of the city centre to cycle over and attend the launch of ShuleDirect, one of the exciting, technology-enabled initiatives to support and promote student learning… Read more

ICTs and education, Tanzania
Education
Skills development in the informal sector of Sub‐Saharan Africa
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January 25, 2016

The informal sector of Sub-Saharan Africa is comprised of small and household enterprises that operate in the non-farm sector outside the protected employment of the formal wage sector. The sector was identified 40 years ago by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) representing a pool of surplus labour that was expected to be absorbed by future… Read more

Ghana, Informal sector, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, skills development, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania
Education
Bringing back a forgotten generation into education
Blog
December 15, 2015

I’ve been the prophet of doom for some time in education sector dialogue in Tanzania, pointing out that the fairly static school enrolment information, coupled with the rapidly expanding demographics (a fertility rate close to 5 children per woman), means that increasing volumes of children are either never enrolling, enrolling late or dropping out early… Read more

DFID, primary school, school readiness, Tanzania
Education
Diversified secondary education and development: evidence from Colombia and Tanzania
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November 18, 2015

Secondary schools that offer pre-vocational courses in conjunction with traditional ones have flourished over the past decade in many developing countries. In fact, interest in these “diversified” schools seems to be growing because more and more governments are seeking assistance to establish diversified curricula. Although the World Bank has been investing heavily in these educational… Read more

Colombia, diversified education, Secondary Education, secondary school, Tanzania
Education
Widening Participation in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania
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October 24, 2015

An interrogation under way is whether policies for widening participation in sub-Saharan Africa are working. That was one of the key questions addressed by the research project Widening Participation in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania: Developing an Equity Scorecard. Research teams—at the Universities of Sussex, UK; Cape Coast, Ghana; and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania—found… Read more

Ghana, Higher Education, Higher Education Institutions HEI s, Higher Education Reform, Participation, Tanzania
Health
Assessment of the patient, health system, and population effects of Xpert MTB/RIF and alternative diagnostics for tuberculosis in Tanzania: an integrated modelling approach
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May 7, 2015

Several promising new diagnostic methods and algorithms for tuberculosis have been endorsed by WHO. National tuberculosis programmes now face the decision on which methods to implement and where to place them in the diagnostic algorithm. We used an integrated model to assess the effects of different algorithms of Xpert MTB/RIF and light-emitting diode (LED) fluorescence… Read more

diagnostic tool, Tanzania, tuberculosis
Education
Primary Education Support Programme (PESP) Tanzania Summary
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January 30, 2015

This the executive summary of a case study report on the Primary Education Support Project (PESP) in Tanzania.  This was a two-year (2011/12-2013/14) project aiming to procure and distribute books and desks to all primary schools in Tanzania mainland. PESP aims at improving the quality of primary education by providing necessary inputs in schools. Overall… Read more

Desks, Education, Primary, Tanzania, teacher, Textbook
Education
Elimu Kwa Teknolojia (A BridgeIT Program) Summative Evaluation Executive Summary
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May 8, 2014

The goal of the Bridgeit program in Tanzania was to significantly increase the educational quality and achievement among students at primary school level in mathematics, science and life skills through the innovative use of cell phones and digital technology. Principal evaluation findings: Test scores of BridgeIT students in maths and science were significantly higher, 10-20%,… Read more

ICT, Tanzania
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