What Makes The Haruni School Unique?

In Tanzania, the government controls the number of students who enter secondary education by relying on the Primary School Leaving Exam (PSLE), an exam given at the end of primary school. The government only allows students who pass the exam to proceed on to secondary school. Hundreds of thousands of children in Tanzania are pushed out of school each year long before they reach 18  because they fail the Primary School Leaving Exam. Passing the exam is required for access to public secondary education. But more than 400,000 children, 49.4 percent, failed the exam in 2013. The year before, a staggering 69.3 percent failed

The Haruni School's main focus is to make sure they prepare their students to pass this exam and continue their educational journey. Some schools are more focused on collecting tuition rather than ensuring their students are ready to take the PSLE, which in many ways can decide their future. 

The government provides very few realistic alternatives for several million students who do not pass the PSLE or drop out halfway through lower-secondary education, without completing their basic education. Children who fail the exam, and are therefore kicked out of the education system, are at greater risk of becoming involved in hazardous child labor.

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