TPSC was established on the basis of the concept of a virtual college. In order to cope with the changing needs of the public service, the college has a flexible strategy on harnessing and using its resources to deliver services in terms of qualified and experienced manpower, on one hand, and training facilities on the other.

TPSC’S Professional Manpower
TPSC draws its research, training and development expertise from three sources:

• A full-time core Faculty
• A Pool of Associate Consultants
• Consultants and partners in collaborating institutions

a) TPSC’S Core Faculty
TPSC has a core of full-time, highly qualified and motivated staff at its Tabora and Dar es Salaam centres. The team of 20 staff comprises of specialists in Management, Human Resources, Finance, Records, Economists, Accounting, Social Scientists, Engineers and Computer Analysts. A list of core faculty members is in this prospectus.

b) TPSC’S Associate Consultants
TPSC maintains a pool of highly qualified and experienced associated consultants with a wide range of expertise
Collaboration with Other Training and Consulting Providers.

TPSC views co-operation with other management training and development institutions as a long-term strategic choice to which it will be able to achieve those results which are otherwise unattainable. In this regard, TPSC has partnerships with other training and consulting providers. Together they jointly design, produce and deliver training programmes for the Tanzanian market. They also prepare joint bidding technical proposals for training and consulting jobs as and when they occur. Furthermore, TPSC is working in collaboration with other training and consulting providers.

PHYSICAL RESOURCES
TPSC is made up of two campuses: the former Civil Service Training Centre (CSTC) at Magogoni, Dar es Salaam, and the former Tabora Secretarial College (TSC) in Tabora.

Facilities at the Magogoni location consist of two, recently refurbished buildings accommodating twelve classrooms, two computer laboratories, a library and an audio-visual room. Within the complex there are staff offices, the Chief Executive’s Office, the Accounts and Registry. The Dar es Salaam Campus has, also a hostel block situated along Bibi Titi Road, one of prime commercial areas of Dar es Salaam.

The Tabora Branch, on the other hand is on 15.3 hectares of land comprising of four blocks of training facilities, one administrative block and library/staff room block and functional hall, students’ halls of residence and a Staff Housing estate.

Computer Facilities
TPSC has a computer department with eight specialists in computer training for MS-DOS, Programming, MS-Windows, MS- Office applications and desktop publishing packages.

TPSC in Dar es Salaam has two fully furnished computer laboratories equipped with sixty (60) modern computers connected to the internet. Our Tabora campus has a computer laboratory with twenty (20) computers also connected to the internet.