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The Inter-University Council of East Africa(IUCEA) conducted its fourth Academia-Public-Private Partnership (APPP) Forum andExhibitions from 22nd to 23rd October 2015in Entebbe, Uganda, where the main theme ofthe event was Developing the Ideal Graduatethrough Academia-Public-Private Partnership.

The Director of Communications and Marketing Dr.Harieth Hellar Kihampa who represented OUT inexhibiting the Universitys programmes and activitieswas also able to capture someproceedings of the Forum forsharing with OUT staff.

The forums keynotespeakers, panelist and otherpresenters dwelled theirdiscussions on an interesting

subject of Who is an IdealGraduate and What Doesthe Development of an IdealGraduate Entail? A rangeof different ideas and viewswere raised and discussedregarding what were believedto be the characteristics ofand Ideal Graduate. Somewere of the opinion that anideal graduate is the onewho is knowledgeable andhas practical skills, is a teamplayer, demonstrates attention

to details, is dependable andreliable.

Others suggested that an IdealGraduate must be highlyqualied, practical oriented,self-driven, motivated, has the right attitude and hasthe so called soft skills. It was also suggested that thegraduate must be professional, creative, innovative, ableto adapt to different working environments, competitive,multi-disciplinary oriented, has good communicationskills, is willing to learn, works hard and focuses on theright things, and above all, has a high level of integrity

and is a person of good character.A lot was again discussed on what entails thedevelopment of an Ideal Graduate. Some were of theopinion that Academic staff who are expected to produce

these graduates should in the rst place be IdealGraduates themselves, for how can a weak professoror tutor produce a strong graduate? Further to that, theforum delegates looked at the whole education systemsin their respective countries from the primary school leveland suggested that there is no miracle for a University

to produce ideal graduates while the inputs they receive(enrolled students) had shaky foundations right from thebeginning. Others went so far as to suggest that there isno such a thing as Ideal Graduates, they simply do notexist.

It was then concluded that the whole process ofproducing ideal graduates involves having the rightinputs, that is, well prepared students from lowereducational levels; the right process, that is, the academicprogrammes, qualied human resources, adequatephysical resources, required facilities, students supportsystems and nancial resources and then the right outputwill eventually come out.

All in all, the forum was a very good opportunity for selfreections and evaluation. And for us OUT Staff, are weIdeal Graduates in our respective lines of duties?


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Baraza la OUT lawaaga Waheshimiwa Wabungewaliomaliza muda wao kama Wajumbe wa Baraza

Mwenyekiti wa Baraza, Prof. Samwel Wangwe akimkabidhi zawadi Dk. Henry Daffa Shekifu wakatiwa hala ya kuwaaga Wajumbe waliomaliza muda wao.

Baraza la Chuo Kikuu Kikuu Huria cha Tanzaniakatika kikao chake cha 87 kilichofanyikamwishoni mwa Septemba, limewaaga wajumbewake watatu ambao ni Waheshimiwa Wabunge

wa Bunge la Juamhuri ya Muungano waTanzania waliomaliza muda wao.

Wajumbe walioagwa ni Mh. Dk. HenryDaa Shekifu, ambaye pia alikuwa MakamuMwenyekiti wa Baraza, Mh. Sylvester Mabumbana Mh. Zainab Kawawa.

Katika hotuba yake, Mwenyekiti wa Baraza Prof.Samwel Wangwe aliwapongeza Waheshimiwahao kwa michango yao mizuri na ya kujitoleawakati wote walipokuwa wajumbe wa Baraza, nakueleza kwamba walikuwa viungo muhimu sanakati ya Chuo, Serikali na Wananchi. Mwenyekitiwa Baraza aliwatunuku vyeti maalumu vyakutambua utumishi wao ulio tukuka kwaChuo na pia walizawadiwa kompyuta mpakato(laptop) kwa kila mmoja wao.

Waheshimiwa wajumbe kwa pamoja walitoashukurani zao za dhati kwanza kwa Bunge laTanzania kwa kuwateua kuwa wajumbe wa

Baraza la Chuo Kikuu Huria cha Tanzania, napia kwa Chuo kwa kuwapokea na kufanya naokazi kwa ushirikiano mkubwa.

Mh. Dk. Shekifu akitoa nasaha zake alielezakwamba yeye amekuwepo hapa OUT kuanziamwaka 1998 na kwamba naye pia ni mhitimuwa Chuo hiki. Nimejifunza mambo mengisana kupitia OUT, kuanzia ICT Skills wakatihuo nikiwa Mkuu wa Mkoa wa Manyara.Nashukuru sana kwa yote ambayo tumefanyapamoja na ninawaombea mafanikio makubwa.Msikate tamaa bali endeleeni kuwa wabunifu nakuzitumia fursa zilizopo kukijenga Chuo chetualisema Dk. Shekifu.

Naye Makamu Mkuu wa Chuo Prof. ElifasBisanda aliwapongeza sana Waheshimiwa nakuwatakia kila la heri kwa niaba ya jumuiyaya Chuo Natoa shukurani zangu za dhatikwa Waheshimiwa kwa kujitoa kwao nakwa michango yao wakati wote walipokuwanasi. Nawasihi waendelee kujihesabu kamasehemu muhimu ya familia ya OUT popotewatakapokuwa na kuendelea kuwa wawakilishiwetu wazuri alisema Prof. Bisanda.


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OUT members and other participants during the 8 Km Pink Charity Walk 2015 on Saturday 10thOctober, 2015

OUT Participates in a Charity Walk to

Promote Cancer Awareness

The Open University of Tanzania throughthe Gender Unit (GUO) participated ina charity walk to raise awareness on breastcancer.

The walk, commonly known as the Pink CharityWalk is annually organized by the Ocean Road CancerInstitute (ORCI) to support fund raising for breastcancer treatment in the country. Globally, October is

observed as the month of raising awareness on breastcancer whereby several activities are conducted toeducate the society on dierent aspects of breastcancer. This years event was held in the morning ofSaturday 10th, where the 8 Km charity walk started atthe Kunduchi Beach Hotel.

The main objective of the event was to promote aninclusive culture of maximum participation andaddressing gender issues in organizations at dierentlevels. For OUT, participation in the event aimed toexpose GUO members to the realities of breast cancerand being able to create awareness to OUT members

and the society in general as well as to create solidaritywith other social-healthy as stakeholders whiledemonstrating OUTs commitment towards ghtingthe cancer challenge in the country.

OUT participated in the event for the rst time, underthe coordination of the new Gender Unit Coordinator,Dr. Happy Magoha. Other OUT representatives wereDr. Mary Kitula from FASS, Ms. Atuwene Mbellefrom FASS, Mr. Godefroid Mudaheranwa fromICE and also Secretary of the Unit, Ms. Stella Shijafrom FSTES, Ms. Sana Mohamed from DCM, Mr.Salatiel Chaula from Library and Mr. David AbdallahMalamgalla a Student representative. On behalf of

the OUT, the Unit was able to contribute one millionshillings for the ORCI of fundraising.

The walk aracted participants from dierentinstitutions, including government units, non-governmental organizations, faith-basedorganizations and schools. Participants of theevent, including OUT sta, learnt and realized theimportance of early cancer detection in ensuring acancer free society, self-assessment procedures forbreast cancer, the roles of each member of the societyin ghting breast cancer and reducing its fatalities.In order to widen the knowledge participants were

given an opportunity to start developing commonviews towards some of the pertinent issues in thesociety and encouraged to humbly work together toaddress them from the institute to the country levels.


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OUT establishes collaboration with the Millsaps College of USAThe Open University of Tanzania hassigned a Link Agreement with theMillsaps College of North State, USAto collaborate in pursuing mutualinterests in the elds of research,development, education, training,transfer of skills and dissemination ofknowledge.

The agreement was signed onMonday 19th October at the ViceChancellors Ofce by the OUTVC Prof. Elifas Bisanda under thewitness of Dr. Damas Ndumbaro,Acting Dean, Faculty of Law andwill be signed by Prof. Robthert W.Pearigen, President and CEO of theMillsaps College.

Millsaps is a private liberal artscollege located in Jackson, in theU.S. state of Mississippi. Foundedin 1890, the college is home to closeto 1,000 students. The collegeswriting-intensive core curriculumrequires each student to compile anacceptable portfolio of written workbefore completion of the secondyear. Candidates for undergraduate

OUT Participates in the ICT in Education ExhibitionsThe Open University of Tanzania wasamong the educational institutions thatparticipated in the ICT in EducationWeek that was organized by the Minis-try of Education and Vocational Training(MoEVT) from 28th September to 2nd Oc-tober 2015 at the Julius Nyerere Conven-tional Centre in Dar es Salaam.

The main objective of the exhibitions wasto explore solutions for the use of e-con-tent in primary schools to promote aain-

ment of Early Grade Reading, Writing,Math and Science Skills, a special projectto be supported by the Global Partner-ship for Education through a programmecalled Literacy and Numeracy EducationSupport (LANES) that will be coordinat-ed by the MoEVT.

Participants of the exhibitions, includingOUT, presented dierent ideas and so-lutions that can be used to best providee-content to schools to enable them to en-hance the methodologies used in assisting

the teaching and learning in and outsidethe classroom. OUT was represented bytechnical sta from the Institute of Edu-cational and Management Technologies,Ms. Regina Monyemangene, Ms. MariaAugusti and Mr. Mwanuzi Babyegeya.

The OUT Vice Chancellor Prof. Elifas Bisanda speaking to the media in frontof the OUT booth during the ICT in Education Exhibitions, 1st October,2015.

The OUT Vice Chancellor Prof. Elifas Bisanda exchanging documents with Prof.Julian M. Murchison of the Department of Anthropology, Millsaps College, 19thOctober, 2015.

degrees must also pass oral andwritten comprehensive examinationsin their major elds of study. Amongother things, the agreement will

include students and staff exchange,ICT and open and distance learningprogrammes.


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DIEMTs follow-up trip on the Retooling Project bears fruitsThe Director of the Institute of Educational and Manage-ment Technologies Dr. Edephonce Nfuka visited someRegions to make follow-up on the Ministry of Educationand Vocational Training (MoEVT) one year pilot projecton Inservice Training of Secondary School Science andMathematics Teachers in using ICT and other Technolo-gies, popularly known as the Retooling Project.

The project originated from the observed inadequacy inknowledge and skills for teachers in some topics/subtop-ics of Mathematics and Science subjects. OUT was amongthe high learning institutions selected to conduct the pro-gram in Arusha, Manyara, Dodoma, Shinyanga, Kigomaand Geita Regions, where a total of 478 teachers have beentrained by OUT by April this year.

The Ministry intends to determine whether the trainedteachers have mastered the content of the selected diculttopics/sub-topics by conducting a classroom observationto randomly selected Mathematics and Science classes. Inaddition, the Ministry intends to determine whether thoseteachers who aended the training share the resourceswith their colleagues, and whether there is any dierencein their teaching performance after training as well asidentifying the challenges encountered in implementing

what teachers learned from the training.

In Geita Region, Dr. Nfuka was accompanied by the Di-rector the OUT Regional Centre Dr Nestory Ligembe tovisit the Geita Regional Commissioner (RC) Mrs. FatmaMwasa at her Oce on 8th October 2015 and held discus-sions on implementation of the project.

The Geita RC promised to assist schools to get ICT facili-ties, including computers labs for students, laptops forteachers, projectors etc. She also promised to use existingcollaboration between Geita Region and a certain Regionin Denmark to propose an ICT project that can assist inpuing up necessary ICT infrastructure and related skillsin the involved schools.

The OUT team assessed the achievements and implemen-tation of the project among others. The preliminary assess-ment indicates that the use of ICT in teaching and learn-ing at schools in Geita although could be benecial, is stilllimited by the lack of ICT facilities.

Generally, the trip was of high importance becausethrough it, the Geita Region as well as the OUT Geita Re-gional Centre will benet from ICT improvements.

The Geita RC Ms. Fatma Mwasa, (Centre), Director of Institute of Educational and Management Technologies Dr.Edephonce Nfuka and the Director of Geita Regional Centre Dr. Nestory Ligembe (Left) at the Geita RCs ofice, 8thOctober 2015.

A class of more than twenty students sharing one computer for a lesson at Katoro Secondary School in Geita Region.


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The African Network for Internalization of Edu-cation (ANIE) organized its 6th Annual Con-ference in Dar es Salaam in collaboration with theOpen University of Tanzania. The high prole con-ference was conducted from 7th to 9th October atthe Girae Ocean View hotel, and gathered morethan 200 participants from about 30 countries.

ANIE is a pan-African network commied to theadvancement of high quality research, capacitybuilding, information sharing and exchange, trans-national networking and cooperation and policyadvocacy on internationalization of education. Thenetwork was established in 2008 and is headquar-tered in Nairobi, Kenya.

The conference theme From MDGs to SDGs: Thecontribution of International Higher Educationgeared towards post Millennium DevelopmentGoals (MDGs) and what will be the role of the newly

introduced Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)in African higher education. Several keynote ad-dresses were delivered by prominent speakers, in-cluding the president of the Pan-African UniversityCouncil and the former OUT Vice Chancellor Prof.Tolly Mbwee.

Organizers of the Conference intended to establishfeasible strategies through which internationaliza-tion of education can play a decisive role in achiev-ing all the SDGs, directly as well as indirectly. Theoutcome of the three day sessions was a list of ideason activities that need to be picked up by the inter-nationalization community in the coming 15 years

of the post-2015 agenda in order to contribute to theachievement of the SDGs.

The SDGs are a new, universal set of goals, targetsand indicators that UN member states will be ex-pected to use to frame their developmental agendasand policies in the next 15 years. They will followand expand on the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) which will expire at the end of this year.Unlike the MDGs, the SDGs will not only focus onlow income countries but will also apply to mid-dle and high income countries. Conversely, everycountry will be expected to work towards achiev-

ing the SDGs. As agreed by the member states onthe draft set of 17 SDGs at a UN summit in NewYork on 25th September 2015, they will become ap-plicable beginning in January 2016.

On the role of Higher Education in attainment of the MDGs

For the benet of our readers, the 17 SDGs are these;

1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere.

2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.

3. Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages.

4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.

8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent

work for all.

9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.

10. Reduce inequality within and among countries.

11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts (taking note of agreements made by the United

Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) forum).

14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.

15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat

desertifcation and halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss.

16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build

effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.

17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development.


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IEMT sta team marched to a slender 2-1 winover the IEMT students team during a competi-tive friendly tussle football match held at the TTCLgrounds Kijitonyama on Saturday 10th October2015.

The friendly match saw the team brave the scorching mid-

day sun at a lowly aended match despite great eorts toencourage sta and students to aend. Worst, the desig-nated cheering team did not turn up.

Two quick re rst half goals by Emmanuel Thomas andenergetic Godfrey Haonga were enough for the sta teamto wrap up a convincing victory over the students team.

The sta team deployed a brilliant display of aackingfootball throughout the game especially in the rst halfwhen they scored the brace to frustrate the students team.It was a perfect and impressive combination between thesta team that lead Kamala to be brought down some 22

metres from the students goalmouth. Being the 13th Min-ute Emmanuel Thomas took the free kick to score the rstgoal which went straight leaving the goalkeeper fallingapart helplessly.

Barely eight minutes later sta were on the rampage againscoring the second goal by Godfrey Haonga who took afree kick some 46 metres from the students goal. He pun-ished the goalkeeper with a rasping shot that ricochetedinside the goal not knowing that the days business wasthat much over.

The student team merely led by youngsters responded

impressively after the two goals playing with condenceshowing a composed passing rhythm just to nd them-selves failing to contain the oside trick.

In the 25th Minute, student captain Hatibu Isamail con-nected a well coordinated pass that left sta goalkeeperHamad Kassim on the wrong foot to score a very excellentgoal.

The IEMT sta team ought to have scored more goals af-ter geing a few good chances that were however thrownaway by strikers Bariki Kamala and Hendric Komba. Thetwo teams headed to the breather with the sta team lead-ing two goals to one for students.

On resumption students coach reshued his parks by

sending in a goalkeeper and other two players to replacethose who looked out of form. There were various replace-ments in the sta team as it was a friendly match aiming atevery ones participation.

The sta team would have won the match by big marginbut lack of prolonged practice prevailed upfront. Up tothe nal whistle by well marked referee from MakongoSecondary Mr. Cedric Haule, sta team was leading bytwo goals against one of the students. Sta line up was:Hamad Kassim, Nelson Godfrey, Oscar,/Bernard Mwaky-uru, Mwanuzi Babyegeya, Nyoni, Exvodius Albert, Msa-mi Kawiche, Alberto Benitez, Hendric Komba, EmmanuelThomas, Bariki Kamala and Godfrey Haonga,

Speaking during the closing, the IEMT Acting Direc-tor Mr. Stephen Lukindo commended the players andsaid this was the start of various entertainment activitiesscheduled in the Institute which aimed to bring togethersta and students towards a bilateral relationship andeventfully maintaining their physical tness . The ActingDirector also commended the OUT Sports Coach Conso-lata Mwendabantu for the great support and involvementshe rendered during the preparations of this match.

The winning team was presented by a trophy that was re-ceived by the teams captain Hendric Komba on behalf ofthe team, who celebrated with ululations. There were alsocash prices to those who scored goals, Emmanuel Thomas,Godfrey Haonga and Student Ismail Hatib received Tshs.Ten thousand each for the work well done. The overallplayer who demonstrated high discipline throughout thegame, Zahoro Salum (Mpemba) from the students team,also received the same amount. The function was ociallyclosed at 12.15 in the afternoon.

Sports: IEMT Staff dethrone Students Team

The IEMT staff team (in green jersey) and the Students team (in yellow) posing for a group photobefore the match.


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