The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training was a government body responsible for providing education in Tanzania. The head offices were located in Dar es Salaam. Under President John Magufuli's first cabinet, the ministry was amalgamated with other functions to form the new Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Vocational Training.
Organization
The permanent secretary acts as the main custodian of the ministry's resources and is its chief accounting officer. The policy and planning division and the management information unit are under the secretary's direct supervision.
The commissioner of education, under the permanent secretary, is the chief academic advisor in all aspects of professional departments and parastatal organizations. The commissioner supervises the special needs education unit, the distance learning unit, the school registration unit, the primary education division, the secondary education division, the teacher education division, the technical and vocational education division, the higher education division, the adult and non formal education division, and the school inspectorate division.
The core functions of the ministry are coordinated through the following divisions and units:
- Primary education division, whose jurisdiction includes pre-primary education
- Secondary education division
- Teacher education division
- School inspectorate division
- Adult and non formal education division
- Technical and vocational education division
- Higher education division
- Special needs education unit
- Distance learning unit
- School registration unit
- Cross cutting issues unit