Hand in hand for Tanzania’s future: Why our teachers are the most important allies.
Our collaboration with teachers is the backbone of SCHULBANK. Only when we act as one can we give parentless children the stability they need to succeed.
Book tip: Africa is being poor-governed or How to really help Africa.
For anyone critically engaged with Africa’s problems, an inspiring book by Volker Seitz, who mentions SCHULBANK as a lighthouse project.
New partner school with social goals: St. James Secondary School
A school that statutorily allocates 40% of its places to needy children must be a SCHULBANK partner school.
Our new partner: Spring Valley Secondary School
Join us in welcoming Spring Valley Secondary School, Schulbank’s new partner school in Iringa. Spring Valley is a private girls’ school with a very good reputation and excellent results for its graduates.
One room, 90 children and the attempt to teach…
This is roughly how my fellow volunteer and I experienced the primary school system at public elementary school in Tanzania. We spent a few days in an elementary school ourselves and were shocked by the circumstances. Read more
What is the difference in the quality of education provided by Government and Private Primary Schools in Tanzania?
Julitha Cecilia John from the University of Oslo asked herself this question and published a corresponding study in 2009. It is interesting, but also understandable, that the quality of education is assessed and measured differently depending on the type of respondent (pupils, parents, teachers, head teachers). As a result, there are clear recommendations for state elementary school to follow the processes and structures of private schools.
For us at Schulbank, the question of state or private school is primarily about our children, not the costs. They should receive a good education and the same opportunities as the children of wealthy parents.
From this perspective, we prefer to work with private schools until state schools improve under the increasing pressure to act.
Download the study
Uwezo Report 2012 – Are our Children learning?
Although every child in Tanzania in Standard 3 or above should have mastered core literacy and numeracy skills at the Standard 2 level, the reality falls far short of this goal. Over the past three years literacy levels have remained low and largely unchanged, but results for children’s numeracy skills are showing improvement. The following […]
The challenges of education reform since 2002
With the abolition of school fees for primary schools in 2002, the Tanzanian government launched a far-reaching education reform with a wide range of measures to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in 2010. Read more
Uwezo Report 2012 – Are our children learning?
Although every child in Tanzania who has achieved at least Standard 3 should have mastered basic literacy and numeracy skills at the Standard 2 level, in reality this goal is far from being achieved.