Standards and Guidelines

The Commission has various tools and guidelines to guide day-to-day quality assurance operations of Higher Education in Tanzania. Currently the Commission has approved and operationalize three key guidelines and adopted four volumes of a handbook for quality assurance from Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) which can be accessed as shown below:

TCU Quality Assurance Guidelines

• Guidelines for Online and Blended Delivery Modes of Courses for University Institutions in Tanzania
• Handbook for Standards and Guidelines for University Education in Tanzania - 3rd Edition
• Guidelines for Overseas Education Students Recruitment Agencies
• Principles and Guidelines for Evaluation of Foreign Awards and Recognition of Qualifications
• University Qualifications FrameWork (UQF)
• Practical Training Framework

Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) Quality Assurance Guidelines:

• Volume 1: Guidelines for Self Assessment at Program Level
• Volume 2: Guidelines for External Assessment at Program Level
• Volume 3: Guidelines for Self Assessment at Institutional Level 
• Volume 4: Implementation of Quality Assurance System