Tanzania adult literacy rate is 77.89% which ranks 110th
position in the world. Teaching level is still not adequate UNICEF, (2014) 8%
of grade 2 pupils could read and only 8% could add or subtract. Youth
Unemployment coupled with Skills Shortage in Tanzania is worse. The
unemployment rate may be as higher as more than 45%. It is normal to find
groups of unemployed youths (School Leavers) engaging in theft, alcoholism,
drug abuse and prostitution. At the same time businesses and organizations
across the region, employers complain that they cannot find skilled entry-level
workers due to the following traditional educational Problems and Challenges:
1. Weak educational curriculum that does not give
the students the necessary skills and habits.
2. Lack of locally developed educational contents
that solve African related challenges.
3. Lack of
Flexibility due to geographical Limitations and expensive educational programs
4. Overcrowded classrooms with shortage of
resources
5. With Closed Schools and Colleges, Majority of
Students are disconnected and unable to access education
UjuziNet Edtech Limited (www.UjuziNet.co.tz ) provides solutions to those Challenges, as a pan African new educational
technology company that contracts with Schools, Colleges, Universities and
Industry experts to offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Short Courses,
Vocational Courses, Professional Certificates, diploma and online degree
programs. We Supplies to our Partner institutions with a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform,
coursework design, infrastructure support, and data. We help our Customers use
mobile devices or computers to Study online programs i.e degree or diploma or
certificates without going physically to their institutions. Our Platform Uses
Web, Mobile Apps and artificial intelligence technology. Students
can learn easily on their mobile devices on the go from their registered
schools, colleges, universities or even industry experts of their choice
anywhere. And sit for final exams under their registered schools or colleges.
We don’t produce our own contents and compete with Schools and Colleges but
rather we partner, support and empower traditional schools into mobile and
Smart Schools. Students can opt to register for extra curricula skill based
courses like 4IR, entrepreneurship and Vocational programs offered by
institutions and industry experts registered in the platform and book tools and
workspaces nearest to them for practice; consequently, making youths self employed
and employable.
Our target Markets:
1. School and College Leavers 15+ years old: Majority
of these youths are Unemployed due to lack of proper skills required by
employer or soft skills to develop their own businesses. At the same time,
organizations, employers complain that they cannot find skilled entry-level
worker, given the poor education systems.
2. Graduate and Undergraduate Students: Students
from Colleges both private and public, Vocational Colleges and Universities.
3. Professional and Corporate: These are
professional working class in corporate organizations looking to upskill or
reskill their careers.
4. Start Ups, Entrepreneurs and Farmers: We partner
with industry experts and Institutions to create specific online courses for
StartUps, Entrepreneurs
The company was registered in United Republic of Tanzania as UjuziNet EdTech Limited under the company Act 2002 with registration number 152626320.
