High School Dropouts In Tanzania

Students who earn a high school certificate have access to significantly expanded career and educational opportunities. Graduates also, on average, earn significantly more money than their peers who drop out of school. According to Lee and Burkham (2001) The action of students not completing secondary school is universally acknowledged and has connections to juvenile crime, low paying jobs and unemployment. In Tanzania it’s noted that dropout increased year after year (PMORALG, 2014). Previous research has indicated that socioeconomic status and poverty level strongly relate to the likelihood that students will dropout of school before obtaining a diploma. Apart other factors, School, family, behavioral, social, and personality variables have

In Tanzania, great efforts have taken including free fee education for primary and secondary (Daily news, July 2016). In order these efforts to bring the expected fruits then these efforts should go hand to hand with the effort to reduce drop out and raise school completion rates while maintaining quality standards. Students enroll in primary and secondary school in great numbers and drop out along the way leading to low levels of completion (URT, 2016). Apart from other contribution of educational attainment or completion, this study will analyse the contribution of household characteristics on educational attainment in Tanzania and it will base on primary and secondary education. The HBS 2011/12 will be used as secondary data in analysis of this

The structure is starting from pre primary, primary, secondary as well as tertiary education. Starting age is five years in pre primary level which is undertaken for two years followed by primary level up to tertiary level as shown in table 1.1 below. For the case of primary and secondary level the system is defined level of education with respect to children’s age means that we expect children of eight years old to be at standard two but in post-secondary which is known as tertiary education it complex because it comprises different levels with different completion years such as certificate, diploma, bachelor and related. Since educational attainment in context of this study is referred as the number of schooling years attained by individual, the table 1.1 express the levels of education in terms of years/grade such as form four is noted as grade twelve while form six is termed as grade