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Title:Socio-Economic Factors and Schooling in Tanzania
Author:Nwa-Chil, Chudi C.
Year:1981
Periodical:African Social Research
Issue:32
Period:December
Pages:83-95
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:educational policy
pupils
academic achievement
Education and Oral Traditions
Abstract:In August-November 1978 a study of educational selectivity in Tanzania's second-level institutions was carried out with the parents of 984 final-year (i.e. Form 4) students in thirty-two secondary schools located in three Regions: Dar es-Salaam, Kilimanjaro, and Shinyanga; and another 100 'non-school' parents in these three areas (i.e. parents who had school-age children who were not in school). The purpose of the study was to test the assertions in some literature that in Tanzania, despite the country's egalitarian doctrines, the educational system is not open to talent but exhibits a marked degree of constriction in its selection. The study assessed the way in which socio-economic factors such as parental incomes, occupation, and education, are related to school selectivity on the one hand, and to students' educational achievement on the other. - Notes, ref., tab.
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