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    The role of communication between the school and community in ward secondary schools performance at Singida municipality
    (Mzumbe University, 2016) Emmanuel, Andrew
    This study was conducted to examine the role of communication between the school and community in ward secondary schools performance in Singida Municipality. The specific objective of the study were to find out the role played by schools and community in ensuring communication exists and it is effective in the school, to explore community participation in everyday activities of schools, to find out the perception of community and the school on the need for the effective communication between them and to find out the influence of effective communication between community and schools to the students performances. The study involved 105 respondents (58 male and 47 female). The study has used simple random and purposive sampling techniques, also the study employed case study research design, employed interview and questionnaire methods for data collection. The study used thematic and statistical descriptive techniques for data analysis. The findings shows that schools and community do not ensure the existence of effective communication between them since there is great communication breakdown that lead to the difficulties in teaching and learning activities in the ward secondary schools, poor participation of parents into different schools activities as well as poor channel used for school and community communication. Also, the findings noted that there is poor participation of community in everyday activities of school such as indiscipline cases of their children, payment of school contributions and to participate in school`s meetings for decision making on different matters. The presence of poor perception of the community and school hinder effective communication between them. Lastly the study revealed the impacts caused by lack of communication between community and schools to the students’ performances. Lack of effective communication lead to indiscipline of students, lack of parents’ seriousness on making follow up of their children academic progress.
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    Stakeholders’ views on the contribution of wards secondary schools in promoting progression to the next level of study in Shinyanga Rural
    (Mzumbe University, 2016) Ngasa, Revocatus
    The purpose of this study was to explore stakeholders‟ views on the contribution of wards secondary schools in promoting progression to next level of study in Shinyanga rural as a result of mushrooming wards secondary schools in each ward of Tanzania since the establishment of SEDP in 2004. The specific objectives of the study are; first, to find out stakeholders‟ views on the contribution of wards secondary schools in promoting progression of students to next level of study; second, to examine the performance trend of national examinations in wards secondary schools from 2010 to 2014; third, to explore the factors that affect students‟ progress to the next level of study in wards secondary schools; and lastly, to identify the strategies which might be employed to improve the performance of national examinations among students in wards secondary schools. Three methods of data collection which are interviews, FGDs and documentary reviews were employed to collect data from 53 potential respondents. The major findings of the study is that some education stakeholders were found to be satisfied with the contribution given by wards secondary schools in promoting progression of students to next level of study but to lesser extent others were dissatisfied with very few numbers of students who joined the next level of study from 2010-2014 in three wards secondary schools where only 89 (16%) out of 561who sat for CSEE joined advanced level of study which is equal to only 69 (78%) of males and 20 (22%) females students. The study is of the opinion that education stakeholders should ensure conducive teaching and learning environment like presence of enough science teachers, laboratories, and good enumeration of teachers among others in order to experience the desired outcomes. This study however recommends that there should be involvement of all stakeholders in education sector before the implementation of a new education policy for effective results.