LOW QUALITY ASSURANCE HAS FAILED TO STOP DECLINING QUALITY OF TANZANIAN HIGHER EDUCATION
April 1st, 2021
Low-quality assurance is to blame for the deteriorating quality of university education in Tanzania, after the country embarked on a fast expansion of higher education, a government audit report has shown.
The 2019/2020 report by the country’s Controller and Auditor General (CAG), presented to Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu in late March, documents that the country’s graduates' competitiveness has been hampered by poor and outdated assurance mechanism. (See https://www.nao.go.tz/uploads/Ripoti_ya_Ukaguzi_wa_Mashirika_ya_Umma_2019_20.pdf)
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