The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) is stepping up efforts to explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can transform the way students learn, lecturers teach and researchers generate knowledge through a new partnership with education technology company Astria Learning.

Modern laboratories at the University of Dar es Salaam’s Mbeya College of Health and Allied Sciences (UDSM-MCHAS) are helping turn classroom theory into practical skills for students preparing to join Tanzania’s health workforce, a recent assessment by the Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) has highlighted.

The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) and the Natural History Museum, London, are deepening a five-year partnership that has already contributed to the discovery of 11 amphibian species new to science, postgraduate training and a growing body of scientific research on Tanzania’s biodiversity.

Higher education leaders, scholars, policymakers, innovators, private-sector representatives and development partners from Africa and beyond will converge at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) from September 16–22, 2026, to deliberate on the future of higher education and its role in shaping Africa’s development.

A faulty electronic device can easily look like a replacement waiting to happen. But at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), technicians are proving that what appears to be a dead machine may simply need the right diagnosis—and the right hands.

For many employees, retirement can feel like a distant event—something to think about when the working years are almost over. But experts at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) are encouraging staff to look at it differently: retirement is a stage of life that deserves preparation long before the final working day arrives.