| dc.description.abstract | Appropriate and well-designed Curriculum is one of the variables that may contribute to
sustainable development in any given society. The syllabus can reflect the type of end product of
graduates that any education system ought to produce.This paper assesses the Communication
skills curriculum in the institutions offering diploma in law programme in Tanzania. Looking on
English communication skills curriculum, one may raise a concern whether that the current
syllabus will create diploma graduates who are well equipped with competence based education
and training, instead of knowledge based, thus contributing to sustainable development. The
content of English communication skills for these institutions not only not harmonized but also
does not reflect on English communication skills for lawyers, instead one finds loaded with English
grammar as if the programme is intended to humanities programme, thus reflecting knowledge
based education. The paper suggest the need for harmonizing the English communication skills
for diploma in law programme and conducting several workshop organised by the appropriate
organs such as National council for technical education on the methodology of implementing the
competency based teaching. The paper concludes that unless the knowledge based education and
training contents are changed, the expectations of producing graduates with competence based
education and training is far from reality.
Keywords: Competency based, knowledge based, education, communication skills, syllabus | en_US |
