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Africa-Press – Tanzania. <\/strong><\/span>Dar es Salaam.<\/b><\/p>\n

Education experts in both Zanzibar and Tanzania mainland have praised the move by the Isle\u2019s government to re-establish seventh grade as the end of primary education, calling it one of the efforts to strengthen the Union.<\/p>\n

This comes after almost 15 years of Zanzibar eliminating seventh grade from its primary education system making the island\u2019s primary education system different from that of the Mainland while the national exam is the same.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Zanzibar\u2019s Education and Vocational Training aminister Simai Mohammed Said announced the restoration of the system from 2022 ending the one that the 2006 Education Policy directed primary education to start from Standard One to Standard Six.<\/p>\n

On Friday reports had it that the Minister for Education – Zanzibar, Mr Said noted that the aim was to enable students to access pre-pre-primary, primary and secondary education opportunities at an appropriate age.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the introduction of the sixth grade, stakeholders commented on the ability of student\u2019s vis-\u00e0-vis their age, the number of subjects and the ability to cope with those subjects at the primary level and their development when they enter secondary education,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said due to various changes and development strategies in the country as well as the various encounters facing the education sector, the ministry has seen the need to conduct a thorough assessment and provide permanent solutions to those challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt plans to make changes to the primary education level by re-establishing the seventh grade, so these changes will make the end of primary school to be seventh grade from 2022,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said all the basic needs including curriculum, teachers, textbooks and classrooms have been considered and addressed before starting the class in the coming year.<\/p>\n

However, the excitement of this initiative is not only because it will take into account the age of students enrolling in secondary education, but stakeholders have seen it as one of the tools to further strengthen the union.<\/p>\n

Dr Issa Jumaa Mohamed, a retired lecturer at the State University of Zanzibar, said that the Zanzibar education sector needed to be aligned with that of Tanzania mainland, noting that the move was timely.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll this is the result of the current President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Ms Samia Suluhu Hassan, who showed from the beginning of her tenure intention to remove obstacles within the Union. This was one of the obstacles for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For his part, Dr Amon Fumbuka an expert based in Dar es Salaam said: \u201cThe national examination is administered by the National Examinations Council of Tanzania (Necta), and this is a major step towards equity in education matters to facilitate the exchange of scholars between the Mainland and the Isles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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