Education in Ethiopia
Had a briefing about the education system here and its been expanding rapidly over the last few years- going from about 4m children enrolled in 2000, to over 14m in 2006 – this is about 80% of all children. The state of the education system varies greatly from region to region The universities are also expanding fast, there are 9 ‘old’ universities (including Mekelle) and 12 new universities have opened recently.
Surprisingly (to me anyway) nearly all the teaching is done in English, only Amharic is taught in Amharic, with very old text books. We’ve seen some of the books for sale in the market, and it’s not very encouraging – one of the books we saw was titled ‘English in Simple Way’ (sic)!
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thanks