Midterm report: Tanzania's educational revolution needs investment | Global development | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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Enrolment at primary schools nationwide has leapt from 59% in 2000 to 95.4% today, putting the impoverished country well on course to achieve the second millennium development goal (MDG) of primary school education for all by 2015.
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half of pupils will fail to qualify for secondary school, with 3,000 girls a year dropping out due to pregnancy.
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The progress has come with a lesson in the law of unintended consequences. Enrolment has grown so fast in Tanzania that the school system is creaking with overcrowded classrooms, shortages of books, teachers and toilets, and reports of corporal punishment being used to keep order. In short, it seems that quality has been sacrificed for quantity.
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