Registration
School registration
Every international school operating in Tanzania holds one verified profile: ownership, curriculum offered, campuses, accreditation and licence status.
Read moreNational platform · United Republic of Tanzania
One national record for international education in Tanzania.
PRIME-IS Tanzania registers international schools, keeps student and teacher records, verifies transfers, and compares foreign qualifications against national standards — so a child's education history holds up wherever they continue it.
- Registration
- Verified school profiles reviewed before approval
- Records
- Student history that follows the student, not the school
- Standards
- Foreign certificates measured against Tanzanian levels
Delivered with
NECTA
The National Examinations Council of Tanzania
TISA
Tanzania International Schools Association
Our responsibilities, one system of record
PRIME-IS is not a school management app bolted onto a ministry. It is the register itself — the place where a school, a student, a teacher and a qualification are formally recorded and kept current.
students
Student enrolment and records
Admissions, class placement, assessment history and transfers are recorded against a single student identity that survives a change of school.
Read moreTeaching staff
Teacher registry
Local and foreign teaching staff, qualifications, work permits and employment history are held where regulators and school leaders can both see them.
Read moreStandards
Certificate equivalence
Cambridge, IB and other international qualifications are reviewed against Tanzanian standards through a documented, reviewable workflow.
Read moreEducation records only have value if they travel
A student may start in an international curriculum, move regions, then sit national examinations. A teacher may be recruited from abroad on a permit that must be checked against a registration record. A school may be inspected against documents held in three different offices.
When each of those records lives in its own file, the cost is paid by families — repeated paperwork, delayed placements, qualifications that cannot be recognised in time. PRIME-IS exists to remove that cost by holding the record once and making it readable by the institutions entitled to see it.
Integrating International Education with National Standards.
For schools
Less duplicated paperwork, a clear compliance position, and admissions and transfer records that stand up to review.
For regulators
A current national picture of schools, enrolment and staffing, with the evidence attached to each record rather than requested afterwards.
Built around the people who use the record
International schools
Register once, then keep student, staff and document records current without repeating submissions to different offices.
Ministry of Education and NECTA
See the international education sector as it actually is schools, enrolment, staffing and compliance status, updated at source.
NECTA and regulators
Run verification, transfer approval and equivalence review on records that carry their own history and audit trail.
Parents and students
Move between schools, or into the national system, without losing academic history or waiting on paper confirmations.
A national authority and the schools it regulates, working on the same record
PRIME-IS is not run at arm's length from the sector. The examinations authority holds the record; the association representing international schools shapes how it is adopted.
Who stands behind it
Examinations and standards authority
NECTA
The National Examinations Council of Tanzania
NECTA hosts the PRIME-IS secretariat. It approves school registrations, issues and reconciles candidate identifiers, and carries out certificate equivalence review against national standards.
- Approving school registration and status changes
- Candidate identifiers and examination records
- Certificate equivalence decisions
- Custody of the national record
Membership body for international schools
TISA
Tanzania International Schools Association
TISA represents international schools operating in Tanzania. It is the schools' collective voice in how PRIME-IS is adopted — coordinating onboarding, gathering practical feedback from member schools, and keeping requirements workable in daily school administration.
- Representing member schools in platform decisions
- Coordinating onboarding across member schools
- Channelling school feedback on requirements
- Sharing administrative practice between schools
Which one do I contact?
Registration, approval, account and equivalence matters go to the NECTA secretariat. Questions about membership, sector representation or shared practice between international schools go to TISA. Contact details are here.
Register your school on the national platform
Registration opens access to enrolment, records, transfers and equivalence workflows. Review the requirements first — most delays come from incomplete documents.