UTAFlTl NOTESThis year, the Department of Education has been involved inheavy groundwork in preparation for the fundamental changes in thecourse structure to accorrunodate a four-year training programme ineducation which was to start at the beginning of the Academic Year1980/81. The programme is designed to be a qualitative improvementover the old three year progr~me which has been in operation since theDepartment was established in the 1960's. The four-year programme isintended to pay attention and do justice to the profession, to theeducationists-to-be, to the disciplines to be taught, as well as to the.growing demand for better-read, better-trained, and better-qualifiedpersonnel, not only in the teaching profession, but also in areas ofeducational research, planning and administration, guidance andcounselling and project planning, execution and evaluation. Plans tocreate a full Faculty of Education are already at advanced stages, andthe question now is not whether there should be a Faculty of Education,but howitcan be established with minimumcosts and without undue delay.From the 15th and 16th February, the Department of ForeignLanguages and Linguistics sponsored a seminar intended to stimulatecritical thought on th.eimpact on the University of the expected changeof the mediumof instruction in Tanzanian Secondary Schools andColleges from English to Swahili.Itwas attended by people from theMinistry of National Education, the Ministry of National Culture andYouth, and from various Departments on the Campus.The CorrununicationSkills progra:mme has registered success aftera year of initial organisational hurdles and efforts. The course is nowbeing offered as an examinable course in the' Faculties of Arts andSocial Sciences, and Science. The .Faculties of Law, Engineering andAgricultur~ are still considering entering this scheme which is intendedto improve students' language proficiency.The Economics Department has been involved in a number ofresearch activities. A study on fish consumption patterns in Dar es Salaamhas been undertaken for the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism.181The Department has engaged in a study sponsored by the Bank of Tanzaniaon the financing of economic developmentinTanzania. A regional trans-port plan for Arusha has been drawn up as a consultancy for D.A.'I •Inc.Research investigations concerned with the construction of 1nput-OutputTables of the Tanzanian economy for the year 1976 have been carried outand finally research has been conductedopthe p:'ln-territorial pricingpolicy of maize and rice in Tanzania.In October, BRALUP underwent a review of its operations andoutput for the preceding eight years. A booklet entitled' BRALUP1967-1979' was produced evaluating BRALUP's effectiveness as a researchorganization and suggesting areas for improvement. The implementation ofthe review team's suggestions are still under the Director's consideration.Meanw,hile, research undertaken in BRALUP has been concentrated in theareas Qfremote sensing, water development, agricultural systems,ve,getation and soil analysis, small-scale industries, medical socio'logyand women's studies.The History Staff Research Seminar Programme is one of theoldest and most well-established in the Faculty. On account of itsinter-disciplinary character, the Programme attracts participants notonly from History but also from other fields in the Arts and the SocialSciences, including law.The year1979/80was an extremely active one. A total of twentyone seminar papers were presented for discussion. Apart from thepapers presented by members of the History Department, there were alsosignificant contributions by outsiders, from such fields as Law, Sociology,Education, Geography and BRALUP. Visiting scholars from overseasUniversities greatly enriched the contents of our programme as well. Fiveoverseas scholars who were in the Department as either ResearchAssociates or Visiting Lecturers presented papers on their respectiveareas of research interest.The following are some of the papers presented.From the Department of HistoryJ •Mbwiliza:F.J. Kaijage:A Political Economy of the Heru Kingdom;Tanzanian Rural lndustrialisation in HistodcalPer spective ;182B. Swai:D.O. 'Meill'[,:TIle 'Men of the Spot' and the 'TurbulentFrontier':The Unmasking of a Myth in Malabar History;I9L8and the Coming(0Power of the lIerenidgeNiltion illis ( Pil r(y in Sau(h Afric il.Among (11<'~'on(I'ibutiQns fl'om outsidet1wDepartment were:P.Gibbon (Sociology) Imperialism and the National Question: theIrishCase;D. Bryceson (BRA LUP) Redefining the Relationship between TheoryandPractice;B.C. Nindi (Sociology) Colonial Agricultural Policy in Tanganyika;N. Westcott (Cambridge University). British Imperialism inAfrica:Closer Union and the Future of East Africa,1938-L8;P. Schmidt (Brown University, USA) Advanced Iron Technology inTanzania;W. Freund (Warwick Univer sity, U. K .) Social ProtestandTheftAmong the Nigerian Tin