THE IMPACT OF COLLABORATIVE ROLE OF QUALITY ASSURERS
ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN MASWA
DISTRICT
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 General Introduction
Quality
assurance in education through school inspection by National Governments is not
new in the World education system. The first school inspection in the World
began in France
under Napoleon’s Regime at the end of 18th Century (Grauwe, 2007).
Later, the idea spread to other European countries in the 19th
century (Wilcox, 2000; Grauwe, 2007). In many African countries, establishment
of school inspection services accompanied the introduction of formal public
education (Grauwe, 2007) and many of the developing countries expanded the
inspection services after independence. The major aim of establishing school
inspection was to track the education quality provided in schools by the guidance
of some quality benchmarks that could facilitate learning at the same time
reinforcing stake holders’ satisfaction (Neave, 1987; Nkinyangi, 2006). In Tanzania,
school inspection was established in 1903 under school inspectorate department
(URT, 1999) which has been renamed to be Quality assurance Division to ensure
quality in provision of education in accordance to set policies, standards and
procedures (URT, 2014).
Despite
the establishment of quality assurance through school inspection all over the
World, strong quality assurance system that ensures the collaborative role of
all stake holders in the system was not much developed (O- saki, 2015); a
situation which contributed academic performance in public primary schools in
developing countries particularly Tanzania district councils not to be
improved.
1.1 Introduction to the Study
The
study intended to investigate on the impact of collaborative role of Quality
assurers on academic performance in public primary schools in Tanzania district councils. It
provided essential sub- sections that lead the research to be an effective
context. These include Back ground, Statement of the
problem, Purpose of the study, Objectives of the study, Research questions,
Scope of the study, Definition of terms, Significance of the study and
Conceptual Frame Work. Each Sub-section under
the introduction of a research was as follows:
1.2 Background
Discussions
on Quality Assurance are common in all sectors of the economy
including Industry, Energy and Social services sectors all over the World. In Tanzania, Quality
Assurers
formerly known as School Inspectors from Inspectorate department which was also
renamed to be School Quality Division (URT, 2015) are responsible to ensure
academic performance in public primary schools
as it was advocated in the Education Act No. 25 of 1978 Section 41- 44 and the
Education (amendment) Act No. 10 of 1995 Section 31- 32. Due to the extent to
which Quality Assurers are very important on academic performance in public
primary schools, the government mandated them to work and provide professional
support to public primary schools. URT, (2006) argue that Quality Assurers have
been delegated legal powers as a professional to oversee on behalf of the
government and education stake holders that the education being provided is
appropriate and adequate.......................................
