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Item Parents attitudes towards girl’s access to secondary education in Tanzania:A case of Ngulu, Mkolye and Kisanga secondary schools Sikonge District Tabora(Mzumbe University, 2016) Mwandunga, Macky B.The study aimed at examining Parents Attitude Toward girls` access to secondary education in Tabora especially in Ngulu, Mkolye and Kisanga secondary schools in Sikonge District, Tabora region. Specifically, the study aimed at finding factors affecting parents‟ attitudes on girls` access to secondary education, assessing the effect of spatial distribution of schools on girls access to secondary education and checking the Attitude of Parents on how it affect girls in gaining secondary education in three selected secondary schools in Tabora. The case study research design was used in this research. In data collection interview method and questionnaire was supplied to respondents’ inorder to get some information. Finally, the analysis was done based on objectives of the study. Descriptive statistics such as mean, mode, median and standard deviation were used to analyze respondent‟s responses. During the research, it was observed that Parent‟s Attitudes on girls‟ access to secondary education have been affected by early marriage, pregnancies and cultural norms. Also, the religious dimensions were observed to be among the factors which affect girl‟s access to education. Also parents have negative attitude towards girls‟ access to education. On the side of effect of spatial distribution of schools on girl‟s access to education, data indicated that school distance to and from home affect children‟s enrollment, presence, retention and their performance. Furthermore on the situation of effect of parents‟ attitude towards girls‟ access to education, data shows that boys are always favored than girls. The study recommends that, the government should be responsible for developing programme which will facilitate to change parents‟ attitude on girls education especially in rural areas. Parents and the Government should fight against bad cultural norms and practices which hinder girl to have education. New secondary school should be made attractive and more accessible to low income parents. The teaching curriculum should also be widened to articulate skills oriented subjects in which later it will assist children to be productive in their societies as a result assist their parents. Schools should be distributed evenly to the whole areas so as to facilitate accessibility and availability to all girls in the country. The school environment should also be conducive for girls to be attracted especially on the provision of water. Government should establish a programme of building dormitories to all available schools especially for girls and all students who are far from school as this would make attraction.Item The contribution of gender factors in enhancing good leadership in selected secondary schools in Morogoro municipal council(Mzumbe University, 2019) Allay, Lucy BarnabaThis study examined the contribution of gender factors in enhancing good leadership in selected secondary schools in Morogoro Municipal Council in Tanzania. The main objective of this study was to determine the contribution of gender factors in enhancing good leadership in selected secondary schools in Morogoro Municipal Council. The specific objectives of the study were to identify the leadership qualities of male and female teachers in Morogoro Municipal Council, to determine the mode of administration of male and female headteachers and their contributions of gender factors in enhancing positive leadership in secondary schools in Morogoro Municipal Council. A sample size of 58 was considered in the study, purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used. Both primary and secondary data were collected. Microsoft excel was applied in analyzing the data. The findings of the study demonstrated that gender is very important factor in enhancing positive leadership in senior post in school administration, the contribution of women is very high though the perception of community is negative in some schools whose heads are female teachers. The conclusion of the study shows those females are good in headship in secondary schools hence more female teachers should be appointed in headship of secondary school because they have strong positive attributes. This study recommends that similar studies should be carried out on the contribution of gender variables in other parts of the country in the future research and large population should be employed to get different responses.Item Challenges facing promotion of teachers in public secondary schools: The case of Ilemela municipal council(Mzumbe University, 2015) Mwijage, DenisThis study intended to investigate the challenges facing Public Secondary Schools in the promotion of teachers in Ilemela Municipal council, Mwanza region. The population of the study included officers from the TSD and HRD, MD, MSEO and teachers from Ilemela Municipal council who were obtained through both probability and nonprobability sampling techniques whereby simple random sampling and purposive sampling techniques were used. The study sample comprised 64 respondents. Also, the methods of data collection employed were questionnaires, interview and documentary review. The data were analysed using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Besides, a Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) was used for quantitative data. The findings indicate that there are some delays in the promotion of PSST. The reason for delays include the negligence of the responsible officials, some teachers reaching the bar, poor record keeping in the TSD office, the delay to get the TSD number and budget deficit. The challenges facing the TSD, HRD, MSEO and the MD were identified and how the situation can be improved through both primary and secondary data from the case. The study recommends the following: Trainings should be given to PSST in IMC on the promotion criteria and procedures so as to make them aware of these criteria and procedures; Record keeping and information management should be improved for promotion reasons; Mechanisms to minimize bureaucracy in the promotion process should be designed in order to reduce the time to process teachers‟ promotions; Promotion rights for promoted employees should go timely with employees‟ rights such as salary increment; There should be a special fund allocated separately and adequately for promotion of PSST; The management should promote the PSST accordingly and immediately after they have attained the required qualifications.