Tanzania’s Vocational Education and Training Authority (VETA) will soon introduce an e-learning system, following the completion of the installation of the fibre optic cable at the ICT centre in Dar es Salaam.
Martin Choma, an engineering teacher at the VETA-ICT, said VETA had already identified several gaps which the centre intends to bridge after they complete laying the fibre cable.
The Daily News reports the e-learning technology to be adopted is designed to help counter the problem of teacher shortages facing most VETA centres.
Dora Tesha, VETA’s public relations officer, said the authority was also engaged in other innovations that could potentially boost technology advancement in Tanzania.
“We have been innovating a number of things that if we would have adequate and support that I believe Tanzania would have been in the next level in terms of technology,” she said.
Tesha also pointed out that local talents and innovations should be valued and that the notion that local experts were inferior to foreigners was misplaced.
Other initiatives by VETA include coming up with a system that will enable people to use their mobile phones to switch power on and off by dialing specific numbers.
