The MINISTRY of Education, Science and Technology has planned to shut down for three days with education stakeholders including scholars to discuss opinions on curricula and review of education policy.

The meeting will be held in Dodoma from Monday to September 28 this year including lecturers, employers, development stakeholders, public and private institutions, religious institutions, language management institutions, parliamentarians and the Zanzibar team dealing with policies and curricula.

Other scholars are vice-principals of public and private higher education institutions, regional education officers and education quality controllers.

The Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Professor Adolf Mkenda said the stakeholders will have a meeting to review the views that have been received so far.

"Tomorrow (today) we will have internal discussions with professional societies, scientific and research institutions, we want to go through the drafts that we have right now," Professor Mkenda told journalists in Dodoma.

In addition, he said that although the issue of education is not Union's, but they involve experts from Zanzibar.

"We have collected many opinions and some are conflicting, so we have decided to bring the education stakeholders together, we want to sit with them and show that after collecting the opinions we have this and we will distribute the draft curriculum and policy review to them early," said professor Mkenda.

He added "We will close ourselves to see how we get a draft that has a bigger frame and any time between October and November we will have a three-day educational conference and we will make public all the drafts."

Professor Mkenda said the goal of the Ministry is to ensure that by December the draft curriculum and the policy review are ready for the decision process.

In addition, Professor Mkenda said they have launched awards for creative writers known as Mwalimu Nyerere awards.