 The government's National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty in 2005 heavily emphasized education and

The Tanzanian government's commitment to education as an integral part of its social and economic development started shortly after independence.Before independence, educational access was very restricted.The Arusha Declaration was followed in 1967 by the policy document "Education for Self-Reliance", in which education was assigned a seminal role in the transformation of Tanzania to an African socialist society.