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    Assessment of factors leading to teachers' absente i m in public secondary schools in Rungwe district
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2016) Kiwale, Tacho Kaboi
    The study assessed factors leading to teachers' absenteeism in public secondary schools in Rungwe District. Specifically, the study had three objectives which were to examine factors leading to teachers' absenteeism, their effects and find out the measures which could be taken to overcome teacher absenteeism in public secondary schools in Rungwe. The study employed mixed research approach. Data collection methods included interviews, questionnaires, observation and documentary review. Respondents were 108, consisting of 48 teachers, 48 students as well as 6 heads of schools from 6 public secondary schools, 3 Ward Education Coordinator (WEC), 1 School Inspector, 1 District Secondary Education Officer (DSEO) and 1 District Secretary of Teachers Service Department (TSD). All participants, except teachers were purposefully sampled while teachers were randomly sampled. Content analysis was used to analyze qualitative data while quantitative data were analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 16.0. The findings of the study indicated that the major factors which lead to teachers' absenteeism in public secondary schools were poor working conditions, lack of motivations, low salary, lack of school housing facilities, transport, health and family/social problems, poor leadership style, laziness among teachers and student indiscipline. Teachers' absenteeism resulted to decrease of instruction time, truancy and dropouts, low coverage of the syllabi, increase of conflicts between absentees and the school heads, lack of guidance and counselling and finally poor academic performance. The study recommends that the villages/streets, wards, district and region level should make sure that teachers working conditions are improved. Moreover the teachers who are working in remote areas have to be highly motivated. The study also recommends that the Ministry of Education and Vocation Training has to ensure that reference books in secondary schools are written for specific subjects. This will help the ministry the current problem in which there has been too much multiplicity of reference books for the same subject due to unrestricted liberalism in the education sector.
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    Factors associated with teachers’ absenteeism in public secondary school in Tanzania: the case of Urban and North ‘A’ District in Zanzibar
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2013) Khatib, Ali Bakari
    The study investigated the factors that contribute to teachers' absenteeism in public secondary schoo1s in samp1ed districts in Zanzibar, namely Urban and North 'A ' District. Specifically, the study examine the personal factors causing teachers' absenteeism , determining school working conditions and teachers' living conditions, and to determine monetary aspects that causes teachers' absenteeism in public secondary schools. To realize the study objectives, qualitative and quantitative research approaches were employed and guided by case study design. Data were collected using questionnaire, interview, documentary review and focus group discussion and data analyzed through Microsoft exce1 in connection with six public secondary schools. The study sample comprised 186 respondents; including 2 Districts Secondary Education Officers, 48 secondary students, 6 heads of the samp1ed secondary schools and 130 secondary school teachers. The research findings revealed that a large number of teachers allocated in rural area were discouraged by the schools conditions. Furthermore, the study showed that one of the major factors for teacher' absenteeism was the environmental problem. Moreover, the findings revealed that poor school working conditions and teachers' living conditions significantly contributed to teachers• absenteeism. Additional, it was found out that there was a significant relationship between monetary aspects which actua11y associated with managerial aspects. It was concluded that the major factors for teachers' absenteeism were materialistic, but also payment in kind that force teachers to minimize official working time just to spend part of or full days in private matters so as to supplement their meager incomes. It is recommended that the Ministry of Education and Vocation Training in Zanzibar has to consider salaries and incentives using alternative forms of motivation; such as teaching and house allowances.