The programmes are aiming at solving the major employment problem in the country by making graduates keep up with the pace of technological change in the fields of business and economy and promoting self-employment.
“Apprenticeship training is based on practical training in conjunction with the real workplace. Here, the student spends half of their time at college and half to the employer, where they gets the opportunity to learn in practice the things he has already learned in theory in class,” said CBE Acting Rector Prof. Edda Tandi Lwoga.
Prof Lwoga was speaking to journalists on the new courses which will start in September this year.
The new courses include certificate in Economics and Finance, certificate in Transport Management, certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, certificate in Business Management, Archives and Museum Management, certificate in Marketing and certificate in in Marketing and Tourism.
“At this level we receive a student who has completed the form four and passed at least four subjects. Here we will start to give him basic education in the relevant fields,” she said.
Other courses introduced by the college as Diploma in Economics and Finance, Diploma in Transport Management, Diploma in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Diploma in Business Management, Management of Archives and Museums, Diploma in Digital Marketing, Diploma in Marketing in Tourism and Events Management
She said that the ever-increasing pace of technological change in the fields of business and economy has been a catalyst for the College to prepare graduates who are compatible with those changes.
“CBE is more focused to train graduates with business skills for the Tanzanian economy. The college recognizes that the development of skilled human resources for youth empowerment, productivity, and efficiency in society depends on skilled and experienced instructors, and the quality of training institutions,” she said.
Professor Tandi said for 58 years, CBE has been providing excellent services in the community by providing business education to entrepreneurs, producing skilled graduates in accordance with the market needs.
She said the core objective of the college is to provide education, conduct researches and provision of professional consultancies. It has campuses in Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Mwanza and Mbeya.
Professor Tandi said that in order to contribute to Industrial and Business Development in the Sustainable Economic Growth in Tanzania, the College has been changing its curricula and adding new courses that are in line with the time and developing economy, business and industrial development.
She said in response to the Higher Education System and Providing Unemployed Graduates in Tanzania, the College of Business Education has been increasingly raising many expectations for graduates by providing them with the skills needed by the labor market including many graduates to be self-employed.
“The college has been striving to change the curriculum, to design new courses including using modern teaching methods and the college has started apprenticeship training as well as some students to be on business internships,” she said.
