The Impacts of Fee Free Education Policy Implementation in Public Secondary Schools in Tanzania. A Case of Morogoro Municipality

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Pedagogy - School System, Educational and School Politics, grade: A, Sokoine University of Agriculture, course: BSc. Education, language: English, abstract: This study is guide by the following research questions: Do stakeholders understand the essence FFE policy implementation? Are there any challenges facing the implementation of fee free education? This study investigated the impacts of fee free education policy implementation in public second-ary schools, a case of Morogoro Municipality, Morogoro region in Tanzania. The study was guided by two specific objectives including: investigation of stakeholders' understanding on the essence of fee free education and evaluation of the challenges encountered during the implementation of fee free education policy in Tanzania. The study involved a sample of 45 participants. Two data collection methods were included i.e. questionnaires and interviews. Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS) version 20 employed in data analysis for quantitative analysis. Analyzed data are then presented in different formats such as graphs, charts and tables. Education is one of the most important sector in any nation. It is the responsibility of a government to set and launch national education policy and participate in setting up international policies on education. Countries have been investing much in education especially primary and secondary education, regarded as a basic education. Since independence 1961, Tanzania has made various efforts in broadening the education service to her people. This is to ensure that education service is accessible to nearly every Tanzanian. In Tanzania, the first effort of Fee Free Education was instigated in 1963 to ensure that majority of Tanzanians get education and to remove the enrolment gap between poor and rich households. Therefore, government financed and provided free education from primary to university level. International efforts on