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    The academic performance of muslim and christian seminaries as a factor reproducing religious based educational inequalities in Tanzania
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 1996) Hemed, Hashimu Saiboko
    This study examined the relationship between poor performance in Islam seminaries and the religious based educational inequalities in Tanzania. The main purpose of this study was to compare the process and input variables in Islamic and Christian seminaries. This would help to establish how then aspects are related to performance in Islamic and Christian seminaries. Eight schools were included in the study of which five were Islamic and three were Christian Seminaries. Data were collected from the following sample: head teachers, ordinary teachers and some form three students in the respective schools. Additional information was collected from Executive Secretary of Christian Education Board of Tanzania (CEBT), Education officer with Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC) and Education consultant of "Baraza Kuu la Waislam wa Tanzania" (BAKWATA). Data were collected through the use of questionnaire, interview schedules and observation schedule. The findings of this research have shown that Christian seminaries admit more able students and employ more qualified teachers as compared to Islamic seminaries. Teachers' turnover, in Islamic seminaries was higher than that of Christian seminaries because of better working conditions in the latter schools. It was also found that Christian seminaries were in good financial capacity which afford them high quality input and process variables as compared to Islamic seminaries. Christian seminaries are also well managed and highly integrated to the local church authorities, a situation which was not found in Islamic seminaries. The Christian seminaries were also found to be rich in physical infrastructure when compared to Islamic seminaries. In the view of this research it was recommended that, Muslim schools should work hard to improve their quality and the government should address the issues of inequality seriously. The government should make thorough inspection of all private schools to ensure that they meet a reasonable standard for being secondary schools before they are registered. Number of students per stream should be monitored, that is, the government should state the limit. It was also recommended that BAKWATA should work hard to unite all Muslims so that they may join their resources to offer quality education to their children