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Berhanu Nega (Amharic: ብርሃኑ ነጋ; born 6 December 1958) is an Ethiopian politician who is serving as the current Minister of Education of Ethiopia. He previously was the mayor elect of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in the 2005 Ethiopian general elections. He is a founding chairman of the Rainbow Ethiopia: Movement for Democracy and Social ...
Website. Official website. The Ministry of Education (Amharic: ትምህርት ሚኒሰቴር) is an Ethiopian government department responsible for the governance and policies of education. It is headquartered in Arada Sub-City, Addis Ababa. It is responsible for overseeing the teaching and learning process throughout the country from ...
Modern education in Ethiopia. Modern education in Ethiopia introduced by Emperor Menelik II, who first opened the government school named Menelik II School in 1908 with proclamation issued in 1906. Despite being progressive, the modern education met with opposition from clergy and priests from Orthodox church, primarily the Coptic Orthodox.
In March 2022, Amhara Regional Government Education Bureau sent a team to the agency to request an explanation from the Ministry of Education about grading "errors" in the national examination. 20,000 complaints have been filed against the result of the grade 12 leaving examination, in which the government selects students to join 43 universities across the country.
In October 2023, the Minister of Education Berhanu Nega disclosed the catastrophic failure of student in national exam. 43% of students reported that they have failed to pass the grade 12 secondary school exams in the 2022/23 school year and 96% of students scored less than 50%. [ 13] Only 3.3% of students who took exam in 2022 scored 50% and ...
Education in Ethiopia was dominated by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church for many centuries until secular education was adopted in the early 1900s. Prior to 1974, Ethiopia had an estimated literacy rate below 50% and compared poorly with the rest of even Africa in the provision of schools and universities. After the Ethiopian Revolution, emphasis ...
Addis Ababa University, the first higher education institution opened in Ethiopia in 1950. Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland awards diplomas in the presence of Emperor Haile Selassie at Swedish-Ethiopian Building College's graduation in 1959. Graduate students in front of TPLF monument in Mekelle.
Of these years, 30.4% of first grade were female students. In 1982/1983, 64.5% of all students were male whereas 35.5% constitute female students. Ethiopia has made a reform on girls' education with net primary enrollment rate from 51% in 2003/2004 to 95% in 2016/2017. Meanwhile, 53% only had completed primary school, 25% of secondary, and 10% ...