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Spiders and Starfish

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 31 January 2014 - Categories: Education, Tanzania

Tanzania’s Big Results Now! service delivery performance improvement initiative moves into its first full year of operation in 2014, with considerable interest in the national examination results that benchmark targets signed up to with personal commitment from Education Minister Shukuru …

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Transparency and parliamentary scrutiny

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 19 June 2013 - Categories: Education, Tanzania

Almost a year has sped past since I attended the 2012 Education Budget debate in Tanzania's Parliament, the Bunge in Dodoma last year, in my first week's work. I was unable to make it this year, but  it seems that the debate …

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Tanzania’s pass/fail roller coaster

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 24 January 2013 - Categories: Education, Tanzania

You know that heart stopping feeling when you crest the first peak of a big roller coaster as it goes into free fall? That feeling of dread is perhaps only equalled by the torture of opening up your exam results …

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