Tanzania: Donors ‘to blame for falling university education standards’

Some university lecturers have blamed “powerful foreign forces” for the decline in the quality of university education in Africa. Contributing to the discussions at a seminar on academic freedom organised by the University of Dar es Salaam Academic Staff Assembly (Udasa), the dons criticized the government and foreign donors for “downgrading university education”. A senior law lecturer, Dr Kabudi Kapalamagamba, said university education had been turned into a commodity because market forces were now dictating what teaching mode should be employed.