Assessment of deployment and utilization of the Government Teachers’ Training College tutors: the case of selected government teachers’ training colleges, mainland Tanzania.
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2010
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University of Dar es Salaam
Abstract
The study was set determine how tutors in the Government Teachers Colleges Training are deployed and utilized to achieve educational objectives. The study was guided by the following research tasks, to find out how government college tutors were deployed, to assess the actual utilization of tutors and to seek college tutors’ adopted for the study as well as information from questionnaires, interview guides, official documents and records under qualitative approach. Purposive and Strategic samplings were employed to select the two colleges and the respondents respectively. Four Vice Principals and 38 tutors provided information for the study. The findings show that there was overstaffing of tutors, qualifications inequality and imbalances within and among the colleges. With regard to teaching load, all tutors were under utilized according to the government norms about the number of periods and majority of tutors were under utilized about tutor-student ratios. It was also observed that Information and communication Technology (ICT) and Information and Communication Science (ICS) tutors were over utilized in terms of tutor-student ratios. The study revealed that the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) lacked realistic deployment and utilization norms. The study concluded that deployment system was too centralized to the ministerial level lacking clarity and transparency system was too centralized to the ministerial level lacking clarity and transparency in recruitment and objectivity in deployment processes that caused under utilization of tutors, inequity and imbalances in distribution of tutors based on qualifications, subject specializations and gender. It is recommended that the MoEVT should develop rational tutor recruitment and deployment to achieve optimal utilization of tutors. In addition, the MoEVT need to train all tutors in ICT/ICS subjects and in more than one subject specialization to improve international efficiency. Furthermore, a research on remuneration scheme in relation to tutor utilization and education level is crucial to determine productivity in education sector.
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Available in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr. Wilbert Chagula Library, Class mark (THS EAF LB2131.T34J67)
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Government teachers, College teachers, Teacher's training colleges, Government Teachers Colleges Training, Tanzania
Citation
Joshua, H. (2010). Assessment of deployment and utilization of the Government Teachers’ Training College tutors: the case of selected government teachers’ training colleges, mainland Tanzania. Master dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam.