Project: AIMS- Tanzania
Decsription: AIMS-Tanzania is being launched as part of the AIMS Next Einstein Initiative (AIMS-NEI), a coordinated programme to launch 15 AIMS centres across the continent. This ambitious plan has won support from the Governments of Cameroon, Ghana, Sénégal, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada, and has been awarded the TED Prize in 2008; the 2010 WISE Award, the 2012 UNESCO-Hamdan Prize for Outstanding Practice and Performance in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers; and the 2008 Google Project 10^100 competition, selected as one of 5 winners out of 150,000 entries.
Overall Project Results:
AIMS is already making a big difference: since 2003, 731 students – 30% of them women – from 41 African countries have graduated from AIMS. Over 80% have gone into Master's and PhD programs directly after AIMS at excellent universities in Africa and abroad. AIMS graduates are now strengthening African universities, research centers, government and industry. For example, many of the mathematics lecturers at the Universities of Zambia and Khartoum are AIMS graduates and are now in turn educating hundreds of students each year. Among the AIMS graduates: 55 have completed PhDs, 233 completed Research Master’s, and many more are in the process of completing similar post-graduate programs.