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This study intended to explore “Impact of Decentralization Policy upon Secondary
Education Accessibility and Equity in Tanzania: A case of Muleba District”. The purpose
was to reveal the current status of secondary education after implementation
decentralization policy. The study adopted public choice theory to investigate the
grassroots power and ability in decision making towards secondary education supervision
and development.
In addition, the study used a mixed method approach, specifically the embedded design,
to collect data from Kishanda and Buganguzi wards for the intention of examining public
opinion upon the process. The quota and purposive sampling were employed to select a
sample of 131 participants from various cadres of the general public where the
questionnaires and semi-structured interviews as the method and tools used to collect data
from the grassroots.
The results showed that the opportunities for accessing secondary education increased,
although, the teaching-learning facilities ratio is below average and the sex disparities in
education during enrollment was the same but the gap increase as time goes on due to
dropout. The actors focus much on inputs rather than outputs. Community perceive the
pre-decentralization education to be better than the post decentralization in terms of
quality and the community was not satisfied with the secondary education due to poor
performance of graduates in both academics and social-cultural aspects shown in the
society.
The study concluded by forwarding that the decentralization policy upon secondary
education was positively impacted the secondary education in terms of increasing the
opportunity to access secondary education in the entire nation, but the quality of accessed
education still low at all in academically and socially aspects. The recommendation was
to all stakeholders to focus much on quality aspects with the natural school settings so as
to make decentralization to be effective as local community would involve in demanding
quality service in education and involves in planning, implementation and evaluation.
This would decrease the current tendencies of relying on national standards and
generalization while other community left behind. |
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