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Tanzania gets $50m for education
05/09/2007 15:23 - (SA)
Dar Es Salaam - The World Bank has granted Tanzania $50m to help the east African country in a drive to boost educational standards and school enrolment levels, says the body.
The grant by the World Bank's International Development Association was the third and final instalment of a $150m package aimed at financing a five-year plan launched in 2004 to develop secondary education.
World Bank Tanzania and Uganda chief John Murray McIntire in a statement said that the plan's objectives are to "increase access, improve student learning outcomes, and capacities for better management of secondary education".
He added that the programme would improve and diversify the labour force and ultimately "allow Tanzania to participate more successfully in the global economy".
The 36-million-strong country had an estimated adult literacy rate of 80% and education had been one of the priorities of the government, which allocated it 18% of its $4.7bn budget for 2007-2008.
A four-year plan to improve primary school enrolment had put pressure on secondary schools to absorb a growing number of pupils.
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