Summary of NECTA's History
After
Tanzania Mainland had pulled out of the East African Examinations
Council, in 1971 and before NECTA was established by Law, in 1973, the
Curriculum and Examinations Section of the Ministry of Education was
responsible for all examinations. With the establishment of NECTA, the
Examinations became its responsibility in accordance with the law. The
Curriculum continued to be under the Ministry of Education and the
University College, Dar es Salaam until when it was taken over by the
newly established, autonomous Institute of Curriculum Development (ICD)
in 1975, which in 1993 was renamed as the Tanzania Institute of
Education (TIE).
Between
1972 and 1976 the first staff of NECTA were recruited, among them was
Mr. P. P Gandye who was recruited in 1972 and later on in 1994 was
appointed as Executive Secretary. The other staff members continued to
be recruited and especially so when NECTA's premises moved from the
Ministry of Education Headquarters to the present premises at
Kijitonyama near Mwenge. Presently the number of NECTA's staff is more
than 250.
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The
Establishment of NECTA The National Examinations Council of Tanzania
(NECTA) is Government Institution which was established by the
Parliamentary Act No. 21 of 1973. NECTA is responsible for the
administration of all National Examinations in Tanzania.
The
decision to establish NECTA was a follow-up of an earlier move, in
April 1971, when Tanzania Mainland pulled out of the East African
Examinations Council (EAEC) to conduct her own examinations. Zanzibar
pulled out of EAEC in 1970. Before the pull out, between 1968 and 1971,
Tanzania sat for foreign Secondary School Examinations conducted jointly
by the East African Syndicate, which before then were conducted by the
Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate alone. The Examinations conducted
by the Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate then were the School
Certificate and the Higher School Certificate Examinations. The School
Certificate Examinations was taken by the African Students for the first
time in 1947 and that of the Higher School Certificate in 1960.
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