Leadership Workshops - Tanzania Commission for Universities

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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 8
advantage of the national, regional and international research opportunities offered by different organisations. b. The Commission should carry out a study on research profiles and ability of university institutions to do funded research and thereafter put in place a mechanism to encourage university institutions to do more funded research in different fields. The mechanism could include a minimum number of research output per a specified period. c. The Commission, in collaboration with university institutions, should promote awareness on IPR issues as well as put in place a framework for IPR management. The framework should include IPR policies and registration of the Intellectual Property. d. Each university institution should vigorously pursue the national research agenda and constantly engage with the National Planning Commission as well as the Commission for Science and Technology so that priority research issues are addressed for national prosperity. e. Each university institution, in collaboration with the Commission, should fully participate in different initiatives aimed at improving the ability of university institutions to take advantage of different research opportunities. f. Each university institution should disseminate research findings and thereby put research findings into use through commercilisation and solving the challenges the society is facing in the area the subject of the research as well as establishment of incubators. g. The reforms that the government is carrying out in the area of Science, Technology and Innovations (STI) should be concluded so that university institutions take advantage of research opportunities available in the area of STI area. 7. ICT for Institutional Prosperity a. Given the ever increasing number of students enrolled in higher education, university institutions should make use of ICT to facilitate the teaching and learning. This entails that each university institution should be innovative and 9
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