By Nick Clark, Editor World Education News & Reviews, and Caroline Ausukuya, Area Specialist for English-Speaking Africa & the Caribbean CLICK TO READ OUR LATEST PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN NIGERIANigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with approximately double the population of both Ethiopia…
Kate Ashcroft and Philip Rayner The Ethiopian Government gives higher education a central position in its strategy for social and economic development. This has some advantages (for example 40 percent of the education budget goes on higher education) but also disadvantages. Ethiopia has radically expanded…
Liz Reisberg and Laura E. Rumbley, Research Associates at the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, U.S. Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world. More than three-fourths of the nation’s primary economic activity involves small-scale agriculture, not only highly inefficient…
By Dr. Philip Rayner & Prof. Kate Ashcroft Background Higher education has only been available in Ethiopia to most qualified school leavers since the early 1990s when the current Government, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) led by Meles Zenawi, overthrew the hard-line Marxist…
By Paul Rigg Recently in Madrid the Universities of Leeds; Managua; Berkeley and Pretoria joined forces with over a dozen others in Algeria, Cuba and Spain to support a unique ‘University of the Desert.’ The planned ‘University of Tifariti’ has now – for the first…