International Cooperation: Country Catalogue: Africa
Tanzania
Background Information
Brief history of the University of Dar es Salaam
The first higher education institution in the country was established in 1961 as a college of the University of London. The University College of Tanganyika, as it was then called, started with the Faculty of Law. In 1963, the college became a constituent college of the University of East Africa, together with Makerere and Nairobi university colleges. It was then known as University College Dar es Salaam. In 1970, it was decided to dissolve the University of East Africa. Thus, on 1 July 1970, University College Dar es Salaam became an independent national university. (Source: INHEA - Tanzania (see link to INHEA below) ). The University of Dar es Salaam is one of the University of Oslo's partner institusions.
Relevant information: International Network for Higher Education in Africa, INHEA
Cooperation agreements
The University of Oslo has a cooperation agreement with the University of Dar es Salaam. Click here for an updated list of cooperation agreements.
Cooperation in Education
Master in Health and Management Information Systems. Integrated Regional Course in Tanzania and Malawi (Norad Fellowship Programme)
The objective of the course is to develop national and local capacity in the area of Health and Management Information Systems, IT and good governance in Malawi and Tanzania, and to strengthen the participating universities and Masters Programmes. A particular learning objective is to engage students and staff in participatory fieldwork linked to the development of health information systems in the two countries and thereby link theory and teaching to the practical constraints and problems concerning IT development in Africa.
Research Cooperation
Language of Instruction in South Africa and Tanzania - LOITASA (NUFU project)
The research project LOITASA (Language Of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa)addresses key issues around the changing educational policies in Tanzania and South South Africa epecialy when it comes to the language in education policies. The project entails the following components: · A comparative study of the policy regarding the language of instruction in South Africa and Tanzania over the past two decades as well as the implementation of the policies and the way learners and teachers cope in the class-room situation. · An empirical study where a control class is taught through the medium of English and an experimental class is taught through a primary or home language. An experimental research design will be used to find out differences in performances between teaching in Kiswahili/Xhosa and teaching in English. This study has the following three components: a research component, a materials development component and a teacher development component. · A study of the transition between primary and secondary schooling in Tanzania. The program activities are twofold, consisting primarily of research activities but connected to the research also capacity building and training. The research activities involve both established researchers and Masters and doctoral students. The training component aims at capacity building, primarily in the South.
Project coordinator at UiO: Prof. Birgit Brock-Utne, Dept. of Educational Research.
A comprehensive school- and health system-based approach to adolescent health promotion in South Africa and Tanzania (NUFU project)
The overall goal of this project is to improve the evidence base for effective health promotion among school-aged adolescents in sub-Saharan African settings, and to strengthen the research capacity and higher education within the field of health promotion.
This research project will be the first attempt to do a group-randomized trial to investigate the potential for a comprehensive, school-based health promoting program in improving the general health for adolescents. At urban/rural sites in Limpopo Province in South Africa and Arusha Region in Tanzania, locally designed and adapted interventions will be implemented. Adolescents, teachers, parents and health personnel will be involved in most of the stages in these processes.
Data collection will take place at baseline, in addition to two follow-ups after the finalization of the intervention. Data will be collected for both outcome and process evaluations.
It is expected that the study will provide new knowledge and better understanding the crucial processes and factors necessary to address in order to ensure effective health promotion targeted adolescents in Sub-Saharan African schools. In addition to the two PhD candidates financed by the projects, additional two candidates will be applied for from other sources.
Project coordinator at UiO: Prof. Knut Inge Klepp, Dept. of Nutrition Research.
Professor Knut Inge Klepp also coordinated the project Community Health Development: An Intervention Study among Young People in Kahe 2002-2006 (NUFU project). It was coordinated at the University of Oslo, but the University of Bergen has the administrative responsibility. Project partners in Tanzania were Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College, and Center for Educational Development in Health Arusha.
General information about Tanzania
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Norwegian)
- CIA World Fact Book
Enhet: Kommunikasjonsavdelingen, informasjon@uio.no
Dokument opprettet: 16.03.2007, endret: 16.03.2007Administrer dette dokumentet