@article{Wetengere:264429,
      recid = {264429},
      author = {Wetengere, Kitojo},
      title = {Impact of Higher Learning Institutions in Provision of  Quality Socio-Economic Development in Tanzania},
      journal = {African Journal of Economic Review},
      address = {2016-01-01},
      number = {2050-2017-2248},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {The objective of this study was to investigate the impact  of Higher Learning Institions (HLIs) in provision of  quality socio-economic development in Tanzania. In the new  knowledge economy, the main roles of HLIs are: to provide  high level manpower needs of the society, provide new  knowledge and diffusing it into the national economy,  provide services to the community and provide employment to  the community. In reality, however, not much of the above  mentioned roles has been done. If higher education is to  become the drivers of high productivity, competition and  socio-economic development, the following factors need to  be taken on board: First, there is a need to re-think and  to re-define the purpose of establishing the higher  education to match with the local needs. Second, there is a  need to prepare students for the future by building  capacity for curiousity, creativity, critical thinking,  problem solving and imagination. Finally, the curriculum of  the higher education must be liberated from the tyranny of  the course book and content. Teaching and learning must be  thematic, driven by experimentation, discovery and  problem-solving based approaches.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/264429},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.264429},
}