Deputy Minister for Education and Vocation Training,Philip Mulugo
The Mauritian government has expressed its
willingness of estabilishing exchange programmes in education between
the Indian Ocean Islands and Tanzania.
The concern was shown by Mauritian Education,
Science, Research and Technology minister Dr Rajeshwar Jeetah, at the
weekend during a meeting organised by the Mauritius Tanzania Higher
Learning Education Forum.
“We need our education to be of higher quality and one that meets international standard,” he said.
“We have established an Open University similar to
the one you have—Tanzania Open University which we believe will require
input from the Tanzanian side in terms of lecturers and perhaps
students,” he said.
“Our intention should focus on the need for
students to acquire international education and share experiences that
are not available in their local environs,” said Dr Jeetah.
In a separate interview, the minister said in order
to improve education in the continent all African countries have to
internationalise their varsities.
Explaining the achievements made in education in
his country he said, students in higher learning institutions and
primary schools get free transport to and from their learning
institutions.
He said the policy of education is to have at least one graduate per family in the country’s self reliance drive.
“If we give quality education to at least one graduate child per family, Africa would definitely stand on its feet,” he said.
Deputy Minister for Education and Vocation Training
Philip Mulugo said: “Of recent, we have experienced an increase in the
number of students in our institutions that need a wider space for their
development.”
This challenge demands that tuition fees in the country’s universities need to be affordable, Mulugo said.
Professor Silveia Temu, Deputy Vice Chancellor of
University of Dar es Salaam said in order to boost the quality of
education in higher institutions of learning we need to work together.
“Our students need to mix with their foreign
counterparts to develop international skills in the process of
interaction,” she said.
The Vice Chancellors said it is vital to have
students to share experiences from their localities despite the fact
that the region has little differences in terms of culture. The exchange
of students would expose them to learn from the conditions that are not
obtaining in their universities.
Shire of Mzizini Secondary School also said that
the government of Mauritius has focused on the right track to offer
education that is rooted in self-reliance.
The kind of education they offer is what Mwalimu Julius Nyerere used to emphasise in the past, he said.
However, it is sad to learn that Tanzania has totally thrown away that system, he said.
SOURCE:
THE GUARDIAN
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