Widening Admittance to Higher Education in Tanzania: Approaches and Impacts

Widening admittance to higher education is the one among the most important agenda in 21st Century. As admittance in higher education increases rapidly, the quality and relevance of higher education services globally are receiving increased scrutiny and raising concerns. Different countries around the world adopted different techniques to increase students participation in higher education. Tanzania similar to many other countries adopted different approaches to increase students participation in higher education. Howerver, the reforms system has noted with several challenges which affected the quality of education provided. This study based on addressing Tanzania initiatives towards widening admittance to higher education and to challenge on the impacts including the quality of education provided. Finally, this study gives out the reccomendations for the improvements whereby the increasing access initiatives should be equivalent to the quality of education provided