Concerns Over Class Differentiation in Tanzania's Public Education System

Muhtasari

• Public system divided This model may be effective for cost recovery at schools, but it poses a serious policy dilemma.
• Over the past few years, a slow but deeply polarising change has been taking shape in Tanzania’s public primary schools.
• Policy vacuum The education system in Tanzania is marked by a significant gap between national education policy and its local implementation.
• The public education system is now beginning to institutionalise differences between fee-free and fee-paid public primary schools, with children being segregated according to their household’s ability to pay.
• The result is a profound threat to educational justice rather than an act of social equalisation.