German support boosts academic staff qualifications

By Fortune Sylivester. Nearly 100 staff at the University of Dar es Salaam have benefited from a German government-supported initiative to assist staff to obtain postgraduate degrees, as the institution pushes to improve the qualifications of its academics. The 98 scholarships through DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service, have contributed significantly to the number of PhD holders among faculty at the country's oldest higher education institution since the initiative was launched in 2002. Read more...