TAALUMA BORA YA ARDHI KWA MAENDELEO YA TAIFA

ARDHI INSTITUTE TABORA

Ardhi Institute Tabora (ARITA) originated from an informal course of an in-house training of map draughtsmanship, which was conducted by the Ministry of Lands since 1955. From July 1964, the course was formalised and was conducted on six months duration. Lack of sufficient room to conduct the course and the growing need for more technicians in the Lands sector as a result of more land offices being opened at District level compelled the Ministry to expand the training. This resulted in the transfer of the training to Tabora in 1979.

The Ministry proposed to conduct this course together with other short courses in the temporary buildings left out by Kenting Surveys from Canada.. So from 1979 Ardhi Institute Tabora (ARITA) was initiated along "Swetu Road" in Tabora Municipality. Nonetheless ARITA secured a new area in Cheyo area within the Tabora Municipality where it is now located. In 1980, this certificate course in draughtsmanship was improved from six months to one year training.

In 1983 the same was yet improved to two years training programme until today. In order to expand services of the Institute for the benefit of the Ministry in particular, and the Nation as a whole, the Institute proposed and initiated a certificate course in Land Management, Valuation and Registration in the academic year 1988/89, with the aim of strengthening technical services in Land administration.

In 1989/90 - the Institute proposed to start an ordinary diploma course in cartography of two years duration. The main objective was to upgrade the training in Map making and reproduction of maps in digital environment in the country, since it had been observed that there was a shortfall of appropriately trained staff in the mapping industry.

The target groups were those with:

·         Certificate in cartography

·         Certificate in land surveying

·         Form Six leavers who are interested to train in this field

In the year 1990/91, Ardhi Institute Tabora again proposed and started a two years certificate course in Graphic Arts and Printing (GAP). The main intention of initiating such a course was to improve the course of photolithography which was conducted as an in-house training at the Ministry headquarters, so that the trainees could now utilize the printing plants at the Ministry head office to produce various information products other than maps alone: These include books, brochures, calendars, company logos, and factory labels. Moreover these graduants may fully be utilized in other printing industries in the country.

It is quite obvious now that the institute has made a tremendous progress academically. From 1980 up to 1991 was a progressive stride for the Ministry, since all courses, which were conducted as in-house, are now conducted as full time courses, with international recognition status.

Since 1991 up to now, the Institute has been striving to improve training and training environment at the Institute, so that the training environment is conducive academically.

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