The Aga Khan University, a partner of CEMASTEA, is a dynamic international and non-profit university with campuses in Kenya, Dar es Salaam, London, Uganda and Pakistan. The University offers courses such as nursing, education, communication and human development among others.

The Dar es Salaam Campus in Tanzania, contributes to the socio-economic development by improving the quality of education hence, conducts a broad array of academic and training programmes for in-service teachers, teacher educators, education managers and administrators from both the public and the private sectors. This is aimed at replacing traditional methods of rote learning with a student-centered approach that builds problem-solving skills and encourages independent thinking.

In 2016, the university in collaboration with CEMASTEA has been conducting a 5 month -three phased certificate course in mathematics and scientific literacy education for early grade teachers from Kwale County.

Phase one was a face-to-face interaction which ran for two weeks in April. The second phase entailed lesson observations and Saturday seminars which ran from May to July. The third and last phase was a face-to-face interaction which ran for two weeks in August and September.

The teachers were mainly involved in various training sessions that saw their participation in group presentations as well as induction by CEMASTEA staff.

CEMASTEA staff together with the teachers in a laboratory session.

The Director, Mr. Stephen M. Njoroge together with CEMASTEA trainers and participants from Kwale County.