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Visiting Mkwawa University College of Education, Iringa, Tanzania I’m still at it. Sorry about the long gap since the last blog, I’ve been busy collecting data… From my earlier attempts at blogging, you may recall that I’m doing a PhD with a focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 4.i – to ensure universal ‘access…
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I have just completed the first stage of my field research into education in Tanzania, where only 49% of children attend lower secondary school, only half of whom complete through to graduation. The 25% completion rate is one of the lowest in the world, ahead of only Chad, Somalia and Afghanistan in the recent UN (GEM,…
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Having carried out my review of the literature, identified a gap in the research and established its theoretical framework, the next task was to design the research – to plan what I’m going to do – how I’m actually going to ‘produce knowledge’! When I set out on this PhD journey I was strongly motivated…
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In my last blog ‘Finding the Gap’ I wrote about the need for PhD researchers to find a ‘gap’ in the existing literature, to ensure their work meets the PhD criteria of ‘a unique contribution to knowledge’. The gap I’ve identified is to approach the issue of ‘ensuring free access to quality education at the…
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In my second blog I wrote about the ‘education poverty cycle’ in Tanzania and how the problem of ensuring ‘access to quality education’ is growing, as improvements are not keeping pace with population growth. The nature and scale of the challenge (captured in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 4.1) is clear. How I approach the…
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I’m half way through a seven hour transfer at Doha airport on my way back from Tanzania. After the heat and spices, the laughing bare footed kids, the banter and barter on the streets, the crazy stalls and markets, the rickety buses and dusty tracks, the vibrant colours, characters and chaos… this uber-shiny, monolithic, hyper-conformist, ostentatiously materialistic,…
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backtoschooltanzania.wordpress.com Blogs on my PhD journey Peter Campling ‘Back to school’ has been one of the recurring themes of my life. After dropping out of my first university, the letter count from the ones that followed has somehow reached double figures – BA, MA, PGCE, NPQH – and the ‘back to school’ theme stretches beyond…
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