DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 11 -- THE Sixth International Quality Education Conference (IQEC 2026) has officially opened in Dar es Salaam, bringing together education stakeholders from Tanzania and other countries to explore sustainable financing strategies and reforms aimed at improving education systems across Africa.

Organised by the Tanzania Education Network (TEN/MET), the three-day conference, running from November 11 to 13, is being held under the theme, “Beyond Aid: Owning Our Future through Domestic Resource Mobilization and Sustainable National Resilience.”

The conference seeks to promote greater national ownership of education financing amid concerns over declining and increasingly unpredictable development assistance, ri...