Sunday 28 September 2008

Ministry to revive literacy education broadcasting programmes

From Daily News, Dar es Salaam
By JACOB KAMBILI in Mwanza

The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training plans to resume its literacy education programmes on radio, through Mwanza's Adult Education Centre in an attempt to tackle problems of widespread illiteracy in the country.

An Acting Director of the Adult Education department, Mr Salum Mjagila, acknowledged here yesterday that the national literacy campaign for which Tanzania was reputed in 1970s is seriously dropping.

"For that reason the government has already devised a write-up project aimed at reviving the Adult Education Broadcasting programmes," he disclosed when greeting Mwanza City residents on 'Adult Education Day' marked in the city at the regional level.

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