Abstract: This study determined the challenges faced by open schools in Tanzania when implementing a concession PPP Model in delivering Open Distance Learning (ODL) and Non-Formal Secondary Education (NFSE). The study adopted a Mixed Methods research design and data collection process involving nine (9) interviews including; sixteen (16) open school owners and four (4) officials from the Institute of Adult Education (IAE) and ten (10) Advanced level students. Also, quantitative data were collected from 20 questionnaires from teachers and students whose findings were triangulated with the qualitative data obtained from the interviews and documentary analysis. The results obtained from the data collected illustrate the respondents’ understanding of what constitutes an open school; the level of institutional support to open schools; and the inherent challenges confronting the adoption to the concession PPP model. The findings show that open schools are diverse in character and composition, but they can be broadly divided into profit and non-profit open schools. It was also determined that despite the lack of a broad PPP institutional framework for open schools; there is a clear policy followed by the IAE in cascading its mandate to open school. In practice, open schools are concessions and performance contracts that operate on behalf of the IAE in providing Non-Formal secondary education (NFSE). It is recommended that there should be more dialog with the stakeholders to increase the cooperation between the IAE and open schools by finding better ways of financing open schools in the milieu of the PPP framework.
Keywords: Open schooling, public private partnerships, PPP Model, Concessions, Open Distance learning, challenges, Institute of Adult Education.
Title: Challenges Faced by Open Schools in Implementing the Concessions Model: A Case Study of the Institute of Adult Education in Tanzania
Author: Robert Mukasa, Cosmas Mnyanyi, ColethaNgirwa
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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