Tanzania envisions change in vocational skills after return of 150 teachers trained in India

DODOMA: THE Minister of State, Prime Minister’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Government (TAMISEMI) Prof Riziki Shemdoe and the Minister of Education, Science and Technology Prof Adolf Mkenda have received about 150 vocational teachers who went on a one-month training tour in India.

The training will enable them to provide vocational education and job skills training in the country to boost the industrial economy, reduce youth unemployment, and build their ability to compete in the job market.

The teachers, immediately after returning to the country, received an invitation from Prime Minister Dr Mwigulu Nchemba to attend Parliament activities in Dodoma and were received jointly by the Minister of RALG, Prof Shemdoe and the Minister of Education, Prof Mkenda whose offices coordinated the training tour of the teachers in India.

Speaking to the teachers at the Parliament grounds, Shemdoe thanked President Samia for approving funds amounting to 3bn/- and granting permission for the teachers to go on a training tour to India to learn and gain skills that will enable them to make a more positive impact in the vocational education system.

Prof Shemdoe urged the teachers to ensure that everything they learned in India is taught to students in the classroom and in practice so that they gain skills that will enable them to become creative, entrepreneurial and competitive in local and international jobs including self-employment.

“Our youth need to gain the knowledge and skills you gained on your training tour to India, so go and teach them competently so that they can contribute to the development of the nation,” emphasized Prof Shemdoe.

Prof Mkenda said that the Government sent about 150 teachers to India to learn how they run vocational schools and implement their education curriculum so that when they return to the country, they can be a catalyst for implementing the new education curriculum by using existing technology to teach Tanzanian youth vocational education.

“We took 150 teachers and sent them to India to learn how vocational education subjects are taught so that when they return, they can be a catalyst for improving the way vocational subjects are taught. This step is part of the implementation of the early instructions of the Hon. President to the Ministry of Education and what he gave when he launched our education policy,” said Prof Mkenda.