Schools reopen today with enough classrooms for students
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- 16 Jan 2023
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As Primary and Secondary Schools re-open today countrywide, the government has reinstated that no student will miss classes over classrooms’ shortages.
For two consecutive years in Tanzania, all school-going children are smoothly absorbed in the education system.
Similarly, a total of 1,073, 941 pupils, comprising 514,846 boys and 559,095 girls are expected to begin their secondary education studies this year.
Recently again, President Samia Suluhu Hassan restated that not a single student will miss an opportunity to join secondary education due to the lack of classrooms.
She indicated that in the past 100 days, the government managed to construct a total of 8,000 fully furnished classrooms for secondary schools countrywide.
The 8,000 new classrooms come as the government in 2021 completed construction of 15,000 classrooms for Primary and Secondary Schools across the country.
“The classrooms are ready to be used when schools open for the academic year 2023…this historic achievement will bring relief to at least 400,000 students,” she said on her Twitter handle.
In less than two years of President Dr Samia’s reign, the government has surpassed the target of constructing classrooms for secondary schools by 198 per cent.
Going by the Third National Five-Year Development Plan (FYDP-III) being implemented between 2021/22 and 2025/26, the government plans to construct another 4,040 classrooms for secondary schools across the country.
However, last year alone, the government constructed 8,000 new classrooms ready to be used starting today, when schools reopen for the academic year 2023. Read More…
