UTAFlTl NOTES
        This year, the Department of Education has been involved in
 heavy groundwork in preparation      for the fundamental changes in the
 course structure   to accorrunodate a four-year    training programme in
 education which was to start at the beginning of the Academic Year
 1980/81. The programme is designed to be a qualitative improvement
 over the old three year progr~me       which has been in operation since the
 Department was established in the 1960's. The four-year          programme is
 intended to pay attention and do justice to the profession,      to the
 educationists-to-be,   to the disciplines to be taught, as well as to the.
 growing demand for better-read,      better-trained,    and better-qualified
personnel, not only in the teaching profession,       but also in areas of
 educational research,    planning and administration,     guidance and
 counselling and project planning, execution and evaluation. Plans to
 create a full Faculty of Education are already at advanced stages,         and
the question now is not whether there should be a Faculty of Education,
but how it can be established with minimum costs and without undue delay.
        From the 15th and 16th February,       the Department of Foreign
Languages and Linguistics sponsored a seminar intended to stimulate
critical thought on th.e impact on the University of the expected change
of the medium of instruction in Tanzanian Secondary Schools and
Colleges from English to Swahili. It was attended by people from the
Ministry of National Education, the Ministry of National Culture and
Youth, and from various Departments on the Campus.
        The CorrununicationSkills progra:mme has registered         success after
a year of initial organisational   hurdles and efforts.    The course is now
being offered as an examinable course in the' Faculties of Arts and
Social Sciences,    and Science.   The .Faculties of Law, Engineering and
Agricultur~ are still considering entering this scheme which is intended
to improve students' language proficiency.
        The Economics Department has been involved in a number of
research activities.   A study on fish consumption patterns       in Dar es Salaam
has been undertaken for the Ministry of Natural Resources          and Tourism.
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The Department has engaged in a study sponsored by the Bank of Tanzania
on the financing of economic development in Tanzania.        A regional trans-
port plan for Arusha has been drawn up as a consultancy for D . A. 'I • Inc.
Research investigations     concerned with the construction of 1nput-Output
Tables of the Tanzanian economy for the year 1976 have been carried             out
and finally research    has been conducted op the p:'ln-territorial    pricing
policy of maize and rice in Tanzania.
        In October,   BRALUP underwent a review of its operations          and
output for the preceding eight years.     A booklet entitled'  BRALUP
1967-1979' was produced evaluating BRALUP's effectiveness             as a research
organization and suggesting areas for improvement. The implementation of
the review team's suggestions are still under the Director's        consideration.
Meanw,hile, research undertaken in BRALUP has been concentrated              in the
areas Qf remote sensing,      water development, agricultural     systems,
ve,getation and soil analysis,   small-scale industries,   medical socio'logy
and women's studies.
        The History Staff Research Seminar Programme is one of the
oldest and most well-established     in the Faculty. On account of its
inter-disciplinary    character,  the Programme attracts     participants   not
only from History but also from other fields in the Arts and the Social
Sciences,   including law.
        The year 1979/80 was an extremely active one. A total of twenty
one seminar papers were presented for discussion.        Apart from the
papers presented by members of the History Department, there were also
significant contributions by outsiders,     from such fields as Law, Sociology,
Education, Geography and BRALUP. Visiting scholars from overseas
Universities   greatly enriched the contents of our programme as well. Five
overseas   scholars who were in the Department as either Research
Associates or Visiting Lecturers      presented papers on their respective
areas of research interest.
        The following are some of the papers presented.
From the Department of History
J•  Mbwiliza:         A Political Economy of the Heru Kingdom;
F.J. Kaijage:         Tanzanian Rural lndustrialisation    in Histodcal
                      Per spective ;
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B. Swai:                TIle 'Men of the Spot'             and the   'Turbulent     Frontier':
                        The Unmasking           of a Myth in Malabar          History;
D.O.  'Meill'[,:        I9L8 and the Coming             (0  Power     of the lIerenidge
                        Niltion ill i s ( Pil r(y in S au (h Afric il.
Among (11<'~'on(I'ibutiQns     fl'om outside         t1w Department        were:
P. Gibbon (Sociology)        Imperialism         and the National        Question:    the
                       Irish   Case;
D. Bryceson      (BRA L UP) Redefining            the Relationship        between   Theory
                        and Practice;
B.C. Nindi     (Sociology)    Colonial       Agricultural       Policy    in Tanganyika;
N. Westcott     (Cambridge     University).         British   Imperialism      in Africa:
                        Closer    Union      and the Future        of East    Africa,
                        1938-L8;
P. Schmidt     (Brown    University,       USA) Advanced           Iron   Technology      in
                        Tanzania;
W. Freund     (Warwick     Univer sity,        U. K .) Social     Protest     and Theft
                        Among the Nigerian             Tin Miners.
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