ABSTRACT The study‟s aim was to find out the causes of mass failure of Zanzibar O‟level examination for the period of 10 years from 2002-2012. The study was guided by three tasks. First, to find out the causes of mass failure in Zanzibar secondary schools from 2002 – 2012, Secondly, to examine the impact of having secondary school in every constituency in Zanzibar, finally, to suggest the possible ways of solving the problem of massive failure. The sample of the study constituted 116 r...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at investigating the “Role of Team Work in Promoting Organizational Performance: A Case Study of Tanzania Electricity Supply Company Limited Dar es Salaam”. The goal of this study was to investigate the role of team work in promoting organization performance and specifically the study focused on examining the relationship between various department and their responsibilities in company‟s performance. The relationship between team work and organizational perform...
ABSTRACT This study examined Attitudes towards the use of modern contraceptives in family planning among the community of the selected four wards in Mugumu town, namly Machochwe, Natabigo and Kisangura of Serengeti district, Mara region. This study intended to examine attitude towards the use of modern contraceptives based on the following specific objectives: 1) to assess perception on the use of modern contraceptives, 2) to identify types of modern contraceptives that are commonly used, a...
ABSTRACT The general objective of this research was to assess the production and marketing of maize for poverty reduction to smallholder farmers in Hanga and Mlilayoyo village in Namtumbo District. The specific objectives included to investigate expenses on major inputs on maize production per acre; to assess the economic relationship between the expenses for agricultural inputs and the output in terms of the value of bags of maize per acre; to identify and analyze maize price setters and de...
ABSTRACT This study examined community perceptions on services quality of primary health care facilities in Rural Monduli District. This was accomplished through qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, namely semi-structured interviews and FGDs for primary data and review of related studies like scholarly publications and books. The study was conducted to 180 participants as an in-depth study and the sample was homogenous. Participants were community members, key informants and ...
ABSTRACT This study focuses on the impact of in-service training on enhancing performance of public secondary teachers in Tanzania, a case of Dodoma Municipality. It was guided by four specific objectives which were: to examine the number of secondary teachers who attend in-service training on the first five years of their service in teaching profession, to investigate the contribution of in-service training in upgrading performance of secondary teachers, to analyze the major challenges faci...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at examining the impacts of corporal punishment in school Education in Tanzania primary schools. Specific objectives included ; one to examine why most of teachers prefer to use corporal punishment in primary schools,two:to examine the effects of corporal punishment in primary schools to the pupils; and third to examine the measures to be done in order to minimize corporal punishment in primary schools. The researcher used qualitative research, which included of in ...
ABSTRACT Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Education is a matter of concern for developed and developing countries due to the fact that most of adolescents suffered from Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) complications and problems including; teenage pregnancies, Sexual Transmitted Infection (STI‟s) including HIV/AIDS, early marriages and unsafe abortion, immoral sex including; homosexuality, sexual violence and unsafe sex are common practices among Zanzibar students. Accordingly, the o...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at analyzing the mediating effects of access to credits on the relationship between individual factors and the profitability of SMEs in Tanzania. The study used cross sectional design as the methodological approaches of which quantitative and qualitative approaches were combined. In the analysis, the study used logistic regression model and structural equation modelling because of the nature of the relationship analyzed. This study has identified problems related to...
ABSTRACT There has been an increasing clamour for scraping of the Local Governments since they have failed in their duties as means of bringing development to the rural areas. As a result of negligence on the part of the local government in developing the community, the local people have resorted to self-help development. The study examined whether age-grades have fostered development in Nkanu East Local Government Area or whether lack of funds hinders them from contributing effectively to r...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed to examine the Effectiveness of Managerial Strategies in against the Employee Turnover in Education Sector: The case of Selected Public Primary and Secondary Schools in Makambako Town Council. The study adopted, the survey design, which is broadly qualitative in nature. Survey/Questionnaire and Interview/guide are methods and tools, which have been used to collect data from informants. The study involved 64 respondents namely teachers, school heads and ward educ...
ABSTRACT This study explores the Commission for Mediation and Arbitration Efficiency towards Disputes Solving in Tanzania, Dodoma Municipality in particular. It attempts to examine the CMA which has encountered a number of challenges, such challenges as budgetary crisis /lack of funding to accomplish the CMA activities and documentation problem are some of the notable problems facing CMA. The study used a sample of 40 respondents and its methodology employed questionnaires, interviews observ...
ABSTRACT This research is about local people‟s participation in tourism development: a case of Idodi ward in Iringa Rural District. It was guided by three specific objectives which are: to examine the factors influencing local people‟s participation in tourism development in the area, to assess the extent of local people‟s participation in the tourism development decision-making process and to examine the contribution of Ruaha National Park on poverty reduction in the study area. A sam...
ABSTRACT The importance of the manufacturing sector in the economic growth cannot be overemphasized. This has led to interests in the determinants of its performance over the years. This study therefore, investigated the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the performance of the manufacturing sector in Nigeria as well as the causal relationship between foreign direct investment and manufacturing capacity utilisation (MCU) from 1970-2012 under the framework of VAR. The result of...
ABSTRACT The government is struggling to ensure that, taxpayers are not evading taxes and pay what really represents their operations. In an attempt to do that, it has introduced a new technology and has required taxpayers to pay their taxes using the technology. On the other hand, there has been reported strikes and reluctance on the side of taxpayers to adopt the system. Many reasons have been advanced on this reluctance, such as not being able economically, complexity of the technology, ...