Abisae Maeda, VoicesofAfrica mobile reporter in Arusha, Tanzania
The low secondary school enrollment estimated at 10 percent in Tanzania has been blamed, among others, on the refusal or reluctance of primary school teachers to join their duty posts in the countryside.
With 10 percent of children proceeding with their secondary education, Tanzania has one of the lowest enrolment rates in the world. The Tanzanian government has set an ambitious target to increase the secondary school enrolment rate to 50 percent by to 2010. This has to start from the primary foundation that means improving the primary teachers college and the working conditions of these teachers.
In this mobile report, the freshly graduated primary school teachers give their views on the teachers’ reluctance to teach in the countryside.
