The Role of Corporate Multilateral Agencies in Enhancing Quality of Primary Education in Tanzania in the Era of Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to rationalize the need to engage the corporate multilateral agencies to back- up government’s efforts to offer quality education as envisioned by the Tanzania Development Vision 2025 so as to build an educated society; and a competitive economy with sustained growth for the benefits of all in the global competitive world. In order to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education opportunities for all, the progressive 4th to 6th phase governments’ efforts demand a full support to sustain the quality of education attained in the course of implementation of the fourth SDG. However, education quality still remains a pressing concern; therefore the main question remains unanswered if the Government can alone cater for, to all school aged children in the county. Despite of the government’ plans to increase more budget on education sector, resource mobilization and investment potentials have not yet fully been utilized to address the quality of primary education in the country. To look on the matter, the study adopted desk (literature) review in the methodology; it has employed secondary data from scholarly journal articles, books, government reports and global education movement reports through the internet. The results indicate that inadequate financial resources, poor learning infrastructure, dearth in teachers’ motivation, social and cultural practices are among the main causes for many children lacking certain core competencies to respond to global development challenges. Having already played promising steps in various fields towards achieving SDG4, the government is urged that corporate multilateral agencies be engaged to back up her efforts in order to prepare children to be part of the workforce of 2030.