College Tutors’ Attitudes Towards Inclusive Education in Tanzania

The main purpose of this study was to explore college tutors’ attitudes towards inclusive education in Tanzania. Fifty five college tutors, from two teacher training colleges were involved. The Attitudes Towards Mainstreaming Scale (ATMS), was used as the main data collection instrument. The majority of the respondents were positive about inclusive education in general, but differed on including students with different disabilities. There was no significant difference in teaching effectiveness between teachers with long experience and those with short experience. Also, there was a negligible difference in teaching effectiveness between respondents who were younger than 35 years and those above 35 years old. Many respondents believed that Tanzania is not ready for inclusive education because, among other things, teachers are not trained and there is lack of teaching and learning materials and adequate funding

Cigarette Smoking at the Hill: Playing with Globally Renowned Lethal Fire

This study was conducted to assess how serious a problem smoking was among students at the University of Dar es Salaam. Undergraduate students who smoke were involved in the study. The participants in the study included 55 undergraduate students from different academic programs. Fifty three of the respondents were males and only two were females. The respondents were drawn from students who smoked cigarettes, by using snow ball sampling procedure. Information was collected through the interview method. The age of the respondents ranged from 18 to 31 years. The results showed that smoking was much more common to male than female students, and that some students started smoking at the age of ten. The majority of the students reported that their close friends and family members, such as fathers and brothers influenced them because they had smoked in their presence. Most of the respondents admitted that they were aware of the dangers of smoking and some had indeed already experienced health problems related to smoking. It was observed that students who smoked by and large also drank alcohol. Thus, if Tanzania is to be successful in her endeavour to combat poverty, serious measures needed to be taken to discourage cigarette smoking, so as to prevent death and unnecessary medical expenses. It was recommended among other things, that the government of Tanzania forbid all cigarette smoking advertisements; and resolutely prohibit/outlaw smoking in public places