188,787 students selected to join Form Five, middle-level colleges in the 2024 intake
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- A total of 188,787 out of 197,426 students who passed the Form Four exams have been selected to join Form Five and Six studies and various colleges in 2024
Dodoma. At least 95.6 percent of the students who passed their Form Four (O Levels) examinations in 2023 have been selected to join Form Five (A Levels) studies and various middle-level colleges in 2024.
Releasing the results on Thursday, May 30, 2024, the minister of State in the President’s Office (Regional Administration and Local Government Authorities – PO-RALGA), Mr Mohamed Mchengerwa, said a total of 188,787 out of 197,426 students who passed the Form Four exams have been selected to join Form Five and Six studies and various colleges in 2024.
Last year, a total of 188,128 students out of 192,348 who passed their Form Four examinations secured admissions to various A Levels and middle-level colleges.
This represents a selection rate of 97.8 percent.
Mr Mchengerwa said on Thursday that the selected students include 812 with special needs who have been placed in various A Levels schools and middle-level colleges to pursue various disciplines countrywide.
"Some 1,462 students, including 669 girls and 793 boys, were assigned to eight secondary schools that admit students with the highest grades, namely Kilakala, Mzumbe, Ilboru, Kisimiri, Msalato, Kibaha, Tabora Boys, and Tabora Girls," Mchengerwa said.
At least 6,576 students will go to day secondary schools for their A Levels studies.
A total of 123,948 students, including 62,636 girls and 61,312 boys, have been assigned to national boarding secondary schools for Form Five.
Some 56,801 students, including 17,332 girls and 39,469 boys, have been assigned to join various diploma courses in technical education colleges managed by the National Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training (NACTVET).
The courses include agriculture, animal husbandry, administration and business.
The first term for Form Five students will start on July 1 this year, and therefore all students selected to join Form Five in 2024 should start reporting to school on June 30, 2024.
“He said the deadline for these students to report to school is July 14 this year,” said Mr Mchengerwa.
Additionally, Mchengerwa said students assigned to technical education colleges will receive instructions on how to join directly from their respective colleges.
"The selection of students to join Form Five and technical education colleges was based on performance and available slots in schools, so there will be no opportunity to make any school changes due to the lack of space," he said.
He stated that the list of selected students and the forms to join Form Five and technical education colleges for 2024 are available on the President's Office - Tamisemi website at www.tamisemi.go.tz and the National Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training website at www.nactvet.go.tz.
A total of 572,359 candidates were registered to take the Form Four exams in 2023.
At least 197,426 candidates, equivalent to 37.42 percent, achieved grades I (one)–III (three).
An analyst says the rise in A Levels enrolment stems from an increase in the number of schools.
"This large number of selected students shows a relaxation of performance requirements; as opportunities increase, so do the conditions loosen," said a lecturer at the University of Dodoma (UDOM), Dr Paul Loisulie.
He said previously that fewer students joined Form Five because there were few schools.
He said the large number of students going to Form Five means that opportunities have increased because you cannot increase the number of students if the spaces are few.
