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Gender equity remains a dream

Are women choosing non-traditional subjects at university level? Do they have the same career development opportunities as men? Focusing on access, curriculum transformation and staff development in higher education, new research in five higher education institutes in South Africa, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uga...

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HakiElimu Annual Report 2008

HakiElimu?s four year Strategic Program (2008-2011) focuses on ?Quality Education?. It aims to enable

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Mortality Risk and Human Capital Investment: The Impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Over the past several decades, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has dramatically altered patterns of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, with consequences for human capital investment and economic growth. Previous studies of orphans in Africa have established that losing a parent is associated with worse educational o...

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Placing learning needs in context: Distance learning for clinical officers in Tanzania.

Background: Poor public health indicators in Tanzania have led to the upgrading of nursing and clinical personnel who currently have just core training. Clinical officers (COs) have 3 years training in basic and applied medicine and are responsible for healthcare of large and dispersed rural populations.

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Preschool Nutrition and Subsequent Schooling Attainment

This study analyses how childhood health determines future academic performance in Kagera region in

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Reducing poverty through education in Tanzania

Tanzania came close to achieving Universal Primary Education in the 1980s, but this was followed by severe regression by the end of the millennium. In view of the country’s past experience, what potential is there to reduce poverty through current educational programmes aimed at developing primary and secondary educat...

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Standards to Assure Quality in tertiary Education: The Case of Tanzania

The purpose of this paper is to provide information on development of standards in Tanzania which may be of help to training providers in other countries as they seek to improve the quality and standards of their provision.

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Tanzania Non - formal Education
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The consequences of child labor

This paper exploits a unique longitudinal data set from Tanzania to examine the consequences of child labor on education, employment choices, and marital status over a 10-year horizon. Shocks to crop production and rainfall are used as instrumental variables for child labor. For boys, the findings show that a one-stan...