Digital Literacy Skills among Students Pursuing Business Administration Programmes in Business Institutes in Tanzania

This study examines the extent to which BAI students are empowered by DLS and establish the specific way in which such students use DLS. This study was conducted at four (4) BAIs under NACTVET, namely, Institute of Arusha Accountancy (IAA), Institute of Finance Management (IFM), Institute of Tax Administration (ITA) and Tanzania Institute of Accountancy (TIA). The Researcher collected primary data from final year-students. The research applied the multi-sampling technique assisted by purposive, stratified, and convenience sampling approaches to collect data from the sample of 500 respondents. The findings of this study concludes that, the majority of surveyed students in the two BAIs in Tanzania acquired operation skills and collaboration skills to a large extent while they attained awareness skills and thinking skills to a small extent. The majority of the BAIs’ students applied operation and thinking skills in academic issues while collaboration and awareness skills were applied in non-academic issues. The findings also showed that curriculum, internet connectivity, instructors’ competence, and information data literacy are the major factors that limit the adoption of digital literacy among the BAI’s students. The findings of this study recommend the BAIs to continuously impart more DLS to their students in order to enable them to balance the application of DLS in their daily life, both academic and non-academic. This calls for both private and public investment in DLS in BAIs in Tanzania.