- Accenture advised on SEDP2 / tbt
Continuing from last week’s post on Primary initiatives in Tanzania with US corporations:
Secondary: Tanzania Beyond Tomorrow (SEDP2) (pdf SEDP II overview) (home page)
This project, utilizing the business consulting expertise of Accenture, is still very much in the planning stages to discover the tools necessary to bring the next big jumpstart of quality for Tanzania’s high school/secondary education system. It may be funded by 450Mil grant similar to the SEDP from years past that drastically increased the number of secondary schools and secondary school enrollment.
Founding Ideas:
- Will work with 4,000 schools, and 1.5m secondary school students each year.
- Secondary Teachers can be more effective with laptop + inexpensive projector.
- Computers can be a platform for continuing education.
- Video and Distance eLearning might be used as a way to provide valuable, well-educated teachers with opportunities to live in desirable and well supported locales such as Dar Es Salaam but still reach the millions of rural students in remote areas with weaker infrastructure.
- Video may also allow fewer teachers to reach more students in fast-expanding areas like Dar Es Salaam.
Links:
- A more specific blog post by INGO collaborator NetHope.
- The Citizen: ICT Solution to 85,000 Dar Teacher Shortage News Release link (mirror)
- Tanzania Beyond Tomorrow Video
Post-Secondary: UDOM/University of Dodoma partners with IBM (link)
There are also the beginnings of parallel efforts to improve collaboration of new Tanzanian Universities with outside organizations. IBM has followed up on its initiative to send many of its Corporate Service Corps members to University of Dodoma over the last year with an agreement with Tri-Continental to help service the swiftly growing Dodoma University as it reaches for its 40,000 student goal, along with improvements which may be related to governance and the primary and secondary levels.
Speaking recently when presenting a paper at a training session in Dar es Salaam, IBM East Africa marketing and communications manager Maureen Muthua said the agreement between IBM and the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training aimed at helping realise the government’s vision of building a ‘Silicon Valley’ type of environment around Dodoma University. (link)
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