ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by looking at some key economic ideas about the relation between education and development. First, the theory that education is an economic investment in people, or an attempt to build up human capital. Secondly, the idea of manpower planning, or making calculated estimates of future demands in the labour force for people with various skills and qualifications. And thirdly, the theory that education gives economic payoffs to individuals and society which can be calculated as rates of return for investment in different types and levels of schooling. Tanzania is often discussed as a leading African example of a radical attempt to reform conventional education and to introduce a new type of work-related schooling. It has achieved only limited success with her experiments in work-related education and changes in the goals of schooling, mainly because the fundamental basis for allocating employment according to academic qualifications has remained largely unchanged.
