By
Jacob Mosenda
Senior Journalist with The Citizen
Mwananchi Communications Limitted
Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s higher education sector is approaching a critical financing crossroads, The Citizen has learnt.
Tanzania’s higher education sector is approaching a critical financing crossroads, The Citizen has learnt.
By
Jacob Mosenda
Senior Journalist with The Citizen
Mwananchi Communications Limitted
Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s higher education sector is approaching a critical financing crossroads, The Citizen has learnt.

At the centre of this shift is a deliberate shift in focus—from expanding access to ensuring graduates possess the skills…

Tanzania is stepping up efforts to position its higher education sector on the global stage, with experts and university leaders…

Kenya’s higher education sector is expanding access and lowering fees even as it faces funding pressures across government…

The leaders also asked the government to continue building dormitories, as many students now live off-campus.

For Tanzania, these findings offer both a warning and an opportunity. The country’s ambitions for industrialisation, economic…

Already, 270,715 students have qualified for university placement under government sponsorship, up from 246,391 last year, an…