Tanzania’s Regional Authorities To Reward Education Stakeholders

Dodoma Region in Tanzania has initiated a platform to recognise and award education stakeholders including teachers and pupils and students.

The main motive behind the award is to appreciate all education stakeholders for their continued effort that is ensuring the development of the education sector in the region.

Speaking during the launching of the incentive, Dodoma Region Commissioner, Anthony Mtaka said that the campaign will push forward the sector.

Mtaka said that the initiative will be providing financial incentives and certificates to primary and secondary schools teachers and students, who passed last year’s examinations.

During the first campaign over the last weekend, RC Mtaka awarded a cash prize to teachers whose students passed 42 with an A mark in the last Form Four examination for 7 points for boys and 7 to 8 points for girls who graduated last year.

He also presented prizes to 374 teachers by giving them 5,000/- for each subject whose students scored an A mark.

He also presented a gift of 100,000/- and a certificate of recognition to each advanced school that qualified students for A grade with the aim of recognising his contribution to uplift education in the region.

Mtaka promised that next year, the prize will be doubled for students, teachers and schools that will excel. The goal is to ensure the region gets the highest performance and be among the top 10 regions in the country.

Mtaka urged education stakeholders at all levels in the region to work together to raise education standards by developing new methods to help students study hard and teachers to use various techniques to help students succeed.

Dodoma Regional Administrative Secretary, Fatma Maganga, said the regional plan is to ensure performance continues to rise year by year to achieve the goal of being among the top 10 regions academically.

Dodoma District Commissioner, Jabir Shekimweri, urged other staff to respect teachers and ensure that they are given their dignity and that it is not desirable to be humiliated in front of their students.