Date of publication:

08/21/2025

United Republic of Tanzania (the)

Do domestic laws and policies provide access to tertiary and other forms of post-secondary education for forcibly displaced and stateless persons?

ANALYSIS

Assessment by population

Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Analysis

While primary education is addressed within the national framework, provisions for higher education for these vulnerable groups are notably absent. Access to tertiary education for refugees is primarily facilitated through international organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), rather than through integration into the national education system. This reliance on external support results in limited and often inconsistent opportunities for refugees seeking higher education.​

    LAW & POLICY

    Related provisions of domestic law or policy

    The Refugee Act

    Legal provision

    Section 31.3 - Education for refugees

    The Minister in consultation with the Minister responsible for education as regards secondary education and in consultation with the Minister responsible for higher education other than secondary education shall make rules prescribing- (a)fees; (b)categories of schools, colleges or Universities a refugee student can be enrolled and (c)prescribing any matter that may need to be regulated for purposes of better and effective implementation of this section.

    The National Refugee Policy

    Legal provision

    Section 16 - Refugees and Education

    Education is a powerful tool in the process of adaptation and social Integration for refugees forms the basis for personal development and through education refugees Improve their chances to contribute to society through participation in the labour market and other processes when they go back home. For refugees, who have been uprooted and forced to flee, the process of rebuilding their lives in a new environment must therefore be momentous and as such they need to be facilitated by the easy access to education provision. Considering that refugees will eventually return home and In order to make it easier for them to easily reintegrate In their societies, the government will allow provision of education to refugees. In accordance with the curricula used in their countries of origin. As for post primary education, the government will encourage the international community through UNHCR and other agencies to establish special schools and Institutions in the camps.

    The National Education Act

    Legal provision

    Section 73 – Grants Committee

    (d) Regulation of various fees charged by higher education institutions