Extension
The mission of SUA in the field of extension is to:
- Prepare students to work with workers and farmers of Tanzania in the agricultural, wildlife, livestock and allied sectors for purposes of better development and strengthening of the national economy.
- Develop, promote and undertake the provision of adult and continuing education alongside the teaching of regularly enrolled students designed to secure the development of and dissemination of various applied sciences and technologies required for the enhancement of the rural economy and the efficacious solution of the economic and social problems of rural areas of the United Republic.
The Institute of Continuing Education and the Centre for Sustainable Rural Development are the arms of the University responsible for co-ordinating and promoting the provision of extension services to farmers and to the public in general. The two centres are also responsible for organizing short training Programmes, workshops, and seminars for trainers.
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“‘Tis the perception of the beautiful,
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“The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind; and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)