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CHALLENGES TOWARDS LEARNING SCIENCE SUBJECTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS. By Miriam.J.Sikazwe.               Science subjects are perceived to be the most hardest by most of students in secondary schools. They are only forced to study them before they are free to choose which subject they want to study in their educational life. Many students are likely to choose art subjects and business subjects. We cannot just blame our students there must be reasons behind this fear and some of them are:            Small number of competence and qualified teachers to fulfill the demanding needs, the nature of education is what determine the quality of the product we produce. Science subject teachers are of low qualities and competence in training the subjects because they are not well prepared and trained. Teachers lack skills and creative ways of arousing students interest towards science subjects when they face difficulties, also many teachers do not know how to meet students unique needs. Also teac

LANGUAGE IN USE TO EDUCATION CRISIS IN TANZANIA

               LANGUAGE IN USE TO EDUCATION CRISIS IN     TANZANIA By Miriam .J. Sikazwe           Language is a means of communication used by a particular group of people. In education language has been emphasized because it is a tool for understanding and acquiring the knowledge. So for knowledge to be fully acquired the learner should be familiar to the language used for instruction. In Tanzania the use of English language as a language of instruction especially at the secondary level has led to many education problems. This can be because English is not our mother tongue and also many students don’t have good foundation in English language. These problems can be evidenced in the following ways:             Performance and the number of students who pass primary education national examination to join secondary school is higher compare to number of students who pass secondary national examination. This is because Kiswahili the language used by most of the students is the lang