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Item Strategies to reduce teachers’ turnover in public schools: A case of secondary schools in Morogoro municipality(Mzumbe University, 2015) Kimaro, Joseph W.The major objective of this study was to examine the approaches established and employed by the government in dealing with teachers‟ turnover in public secondary schools in Tanzania. The specific objectives of the study were to assess the current situation of teacher‟s turnover in the study area; to examine how the council has dealt with teacher turnover rate; to assess achievements reached by the council in reducing teachers‟ turnover; and to examine challenges faced by the council in reducing teacher turnover. Data collection was done using structured questionnaires of open and closed questions, to obtain quantitative and qualitative data. Interviews of key informants were undertaken under the guidance of checklist questions. The major part of the results were analysed qualitatively. Some results were presented using texts, tables and figures to illustrate findings. The study found that the strategies to reduced teachers‟ turnover include improving allowances, construction of teachers‟ houses; creating environment for teachers to get loans from financial institutions, and seminars and workshops for training. The success of the strategies was very little as the implementation of the strategies was of the low standard. The challenges that the council faces in reducing teachers‟ turnover include financial constraints, corruption among leaders, shortage of teachers, and undisciplined students. From the results it was concluded that the rate of teachers‟ turnover in Morogoro municipality was still high; several strategies were established at the school level and council level in order to motivated teachers but they were not workable; council faced various challenges in its efforts to reduce teachers‟ turnover. These challenges include financial problems, corruption among leaders, shortage of teachers and undisciplined students. The study recommends that government should give teacher the transport facilities like motorcycles and cars in terms of loans so that to facilitate teachers‟ transport to their working stations. Also the teachers should be involved in priority setting and planning so that to include the teachers‟ needs.Item Analysis of factors leading to teachers turnover in rural district councils: A case study of Simanjiro district council(2016) Marwa, ChristinaIt is envisaged that, twenty percent of teachers at the rural schools are quitting their jobs in the first year of their employment ( Upendo 2011). This study aimed at analyzing the factors leading to teachers’ turnover in public schools that are in rural local government authorities. The study employed a case study design and sampled 91 teachers from Simanjiro District Council. The study found that, Teachers’ turnover rate in Simanjiro District Council is alarming at the average of 31.2%, whereby in general teachers’ turnover rate is ranging on the average of 10.4% while national labour turnover rate is ranging at the average of 1.9%. It was also found that both extrinsic and intrinsic related factors significantly affect teachers’ turnover in Simanjiro District Council. The study concluded that the teachers ‘turnover rate for Simanjiro District Council is very high to the extent of jeopardizing the education service in Simanjiro District Council. In order to reduce teachers’ turnover, the government should improve benefits to teachers such as better packages, meet teachers’ prospects, control external forces or pressures that influence teachers’ turnover, change of administrative guidelines and put in place strategies that maximize teachers’ job satisfaction. The study recommends to LGAs to design treatment mechanism for rural teachers. Teachers are very significant resource of the government which makes the government role of education to be fulfilled; Government through LGAs should pay teachers based on their work environment and look into their salary scale and draft a compensation packages that are considered competitive in order to retain talented teachers in the rural areas.