Leadership Workshops - Tanzania Commission for Universities

curricula and preparing its staff along the principles of competency based
teaching and learning.
e. The Commission in collaboration with education stakeholders should, by
2013/14 academic year complete the development of the long awaited National
Qualifications Framework.
f. The Commission, in collaboration with university institutions, should form a
special task force that would look at all issues related to education in general
with a view to forecast the implications of increased demand on education and
unprecedented high enrollments in both primary and secondary schools to
higher education. That task force should also propose possible scenarios and
advice the government, university institutions and other education stakeholders
on the appropriate scenario to address this issue.
g. Universities should not be restricted to the GPA score as the only criterion for
recruitment of academic staff. Other mechanisms and criteria should be devised
to be able to identify competent candidates for academic positions.
h. In view of the increasing demand for higher education, the Commission in
collaboration with university institutions should put in place a mechanism to
guide the process of expansion so as to ensure that quality of higher education is
not compromised.
i. Each university institution in collaboration with the Commission should put in
place mechanisms that will address issues of plagiarism and cheating including
addressing the practice that seem to be emerging of people who write projects,
papers, dissertations and theses for students. Among the mechanisms to be used
should include establishment by the Commission of the central system for
storage of dissertations and theses so that it possible to tract and verify
originality of projects, papers, dissertations and theses.
6. Management of Research Projects and IPR
a. University institutions, in collaboration with the Commission and other research
stakeholders should put in place modalities for joint/collaborative research in
different fields. In this regard, university institutions in Tanzania should take full
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