Education is now free in Tanzania as the Government has started implementing free education policy by issuing a circular on how it would be executed.
This noble dream has been very possible following parents' positive response to the Government's programe of free education in primary and
secondary schools starting January this year. This good initiative of the Government and parents has increased students enrollment.
Parents involvement in this program to get free and quality education is so high that parents had
agreed to move forward by voluntarily contributing towards daily running
expenses including provision of food to help pupils come from distant
localities to attend classes comfortably.
This new system of free education means pupils or students
will not pay any fee or other contributions that were being provided by
parents or guardians before the release of new circular.
The new free education system aims at giving an opportunity to children from low income families to have access to free education as well as lessening parents' burden of excessive fees and other contributions, it's target groups are children studying at public schools from standard one to secondary schools at ordinary level. The government has budgeted a total of 137bn/- to implement the promised free education.
What a noble initiative, this is a mark of good leadership, if most of our leaders in Africa could emulate this very shining example of Tanzanian leadership, it would go a long way to break our level of ignorance and assist us in our struggle to bring happiness and development to all our people.
Source: africanleadership.co.uk
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