AfricaPress-Tanzania: EDUCATION, Science and Technology Minister Prof Joyce Ndalichako has instructed the country’s Schools Quality Inspection Director, within one month to submit to her schools’ inspection report and what they found.
Speaking on Wednesday at a function to hand over 38 vehicles to the schools’ quality inspectors, Prof Ndalichako said she was not satisfied by the current mode of inspection being carried out that entails bad financial expenditure.
“We are distributing these vehicles to the schools’ quality inspectors to enable them reach many schools at a time, but surprisingly you will find the inspector using government fuel visiting a ward with both primary and secondary schools but he will only visit the primary school.
“He then wants another inspector to go to the same ward to inspect the secondary school. This is not right, and a very bad use of government funds and resources,” she added.
She said apart from bad use of government resources the practice also means fewer schools are visited.
Prof Ndalichako said the government will continue to work together with development partners and other stakeholders in improving the country’s education sector.
She also used the occasion to thank donors and development partners including the World Bank, SIDA and DfID for the purchase of the 38 vehicles costing 6bn/-.
She said the vehicles will be used to strengthen the quality control of schools in the country.
“The vehicles will be distributed to 27 local councils that have no vehicles, and 10 to zones while one vehicle will be stationed at the head office for follow up work,” she said.
She also said the government will continue to strengthen the quality control system for the schools as it added 400 more inspectors in FY 2019/20, the increase that helped in the follow up of schools and teachers’ colleges.
