A graduation ceremony is being held for about ten thousand students at Addis Ababa University (AAU) today. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, other higher government officials and ambassadors are attending the ceremony that is being held at the millennium hall. In his address to the graduates, the university’s president Dr. Admassu Tsegaye reminded that the present […]

Addis Ababa University (AAU) has given today honorary doctorate degrees to four individuals. The famous Ethiopian Athlete and Olympic medalist Tirunesh Dibaba, The great Ethiopian theater personality Tesfaye Abebe (‘Father’), history professor Angelo Delboca and Psychiatrist Claire Penn have received their honorary doctorate degrees from the guest of honor Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. Tirunesh Dibaba […]

Gondar University which has recently celebrated its 60th diamond jubilee has inaugurated a hospital that was built by 9.1 million dollars financial help from the American government’s Center for Disease Control (CDC). The university has also said that since the 50 million birr promised by Sheikh Alamuddin for the hospital building five years ago hasn’t […]

On June 25 the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) – the world’s only multilateral partnership devoted to improving the provision of quality basic education – held its second replenishment conference in Brussels. At this conference all GPE partners came together to renew the commitment to give all children (especially in the poorest countries) access to […]

A conference on the theme “Early Grade Reading: A grand challenge for quality education in Ethiopia, the role of public private partnership” was held on Friday June 27th at Siyonat Hotel. It brought education leaders, policy makers, learning institutions, civil society organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) together to discus sustainable actions to improve early grade […]

HKS Information Session – Addis Ababa Friday, June 27, 2014 at 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM United Nations Conference Centre Conference Room #5 Addis Ababa Ethiopia Program of Interest Master in Public Administration Master in Public Administration – International Development Master in Public Policy Mid-Career Master in Public Administration (Including Mason)

The prestigious competition was comprised of four stations (physics, jet engines, word puzzles and architecture) By: Laura Kindler Two new immigrants from Ethiopia have won a prestigious competition which was held in Bat Yam, one of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto’s three Israeli partnership regions. The competition was run by Bat Yam’s Excellence Center, which […]

Mekelle University announced that it will open a Ph.D program in two sport science streams in the next academic year. The university’s natural and computational science college dean Dr. Habtu Alemayehu said that it is in the sport management and physical education streams that the Ph.D programs are launched. Speaking on the curriculum review seminar […]

Ethiopia has meaningfully reduced the spirit of dependency due to the favorable and realizable policies it has been introducing, according to the Dean of Development Studies of Addis Ababa University. College Dean Dr. Degefu Tolosa said the country is able to cut the number of aid recipients as it worked by focusing on irrigation, soil […]

Gondar University announced that it would start offering German language certificate course in the coming academic year. Speaking at a curriculum evaluation workshop on Thursday, Dean of College of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University, Eyayu Belay, said the training will be given in cooperation with German Cultural Institute. The main objective of teaching […]

School of Tomorrow also known as SOT is recognized by Manchester University in the United States as a school producing intellectual and successful students. The university issued a certificate stating the students produced by School of tomorrow are well prepared for continuing education. Thus, the university announced partnership with the high school to award student […]

Jailed Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega has been awarded the Golden Pen For Freedom. The honour was awarded on Nega in a ceremony at the 66th World Newspaper Congress under way in Torino,Italy this week, where more than 1,000 media Industry representatives have gathered. Nega is serving an 18-year jail term in Addis Ababa’s Kaliti prison […]

French embassy in Addis told Reporter newspaper that French language education is to be given at some government high schools in Ethiopia. French language education used to be given at the Emperor Hilesellasie’s reign before the Ethiopia revolution in 1974, but following the regime change the French language education was taken out of the country’s […]

Washington, DC (TADIAS) – President Barack Obama hosted the 2014 White House Science Fair last Tuesday, May 27th highlighting some of “America’s most innovative students” and featuring a variety of projects, including a pedestrian alert system designed for use in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia invented by Ethiopian-born Felege Gebru, 18, and Karen Fan, 17 (both representing […]

Leaders of Ethiopia’s institutions of higher learning have been urged to focus on making universities modern and productive. Speaking at the closing of the 26th Conference of the Council of Institutions of Higher Learning Tuesday, Education Minister Shiferaw Shigute said they should utilise all their resources to modernize universities and to produce sufficient qualified manpower. […]

Arbaminch University celebrates its silver jubilee. The university’s president Dr. Feleke Woldeyes said that the silver jubilee is celebrated with various events. The president has also pointed out the university’s contribution in training professionals for the water and hydroelectric projects of the nation. When the university was founded 25 years ago it has been training […]