{"id":9893,"date":"2014-07-20T01:34:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T01:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schulbank.com\/2014\/07\/20\/the-challenges-of-education-reform-since-2002\/"},"modified":"2014-07-20T01:34:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T01:34:37","slug":"the-challenges-of-education-reform-since-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schulbank.com\/en\/2014\/07\/20\/the-challenges-of-education-reform-since-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"The challenges of education reform since 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<!--more--><br \/>\nThe political successes were an explosive increase in school enrolment and, as a result, a significant drop in the illiteracy rate. Without doubt the right steps. And everyone was certainly aware that this would lead to serious problems that continue to this day. Reading studies and reports by Tanzanian and foreign observers and experts today, it would appear that the reform process is far from complete. On the contrary, some even speak of a deterioration in the education situation.<br \/>\nWe at Schulbank lack the expertise to objectively assess the situation. However, during our three-month stay in Tanzania, we were able to form our own opinion on a number of points. We have seen the great efforts of the state, as well as their incompleteness, which is not solely due to financial conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-in-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The challenges of education reform since 2002<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Read more about the challenges of education reform since 2002. 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