Tanzania, May 14 -- Dar es Salaam. Tanzania needs to rethink the role of university education if it is to equip young people with skills required in a rapidly changing global economy, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in Tanzania, Shigeki Komatsubara, has said.

Speaking during a workshop on competency frameworks and competency-based curriculum development at the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology on May 12, Mr Komatsubara said traditional models of university education are no longer sufficient as the world undergoes major technological and economic transformation.

He said the emergence of artificial intelligence, digital economies and green technologies is changing the nature of jobs globally, fo...