Title: | Emerging Models of Quality, Relevance and Standard in Ethiopia’s Higher Education Institutions |
Authors: | Ashcroft, Kate |
Keywords: | Higher Education Institutions,Emerging Models,Quality, Relevance,Standard,Ethiopia |
Issue Date: | Aug-2005 |
Publisher: | ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY |
Abstract: | In 2003 the Ethiopian Government introduced a higher education proclamation(Federal
Republic Of Ethiopia:2003), establishing wide ranging reforms to the higher education
system and setting up key agencies to guide and oversee the sector, including The
Ethiopian Education strategy Institute and the quality and relevance assurance Agency.
The reforms introduces elements of a quasi-market in higher education: students sharing
the costs of higher education and therefore moving into a customer-like relationship with
higher education institutions; the expansion of private higher education; the move away
from state funding of public higher education institutions through the encouragement of
income generation activity. They also enabled a move from extreme centralization
towards institutional autonomy. Such autonomy and the creation of quasi-market
depends upon ‘customers’ (and other stakeholders such as the Government) being
assured of the quality of the ‘product’ offered (whether education, consultancy or applied
research). Without that assurance, the reforms would not meet the country’s development
agenda.
This paper reports on the extent that appropriate quality assurance practices are
presently in existence in Ethiopia and proposes an emerging model of quality and
standards. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2628 |
Appears in Collections: | Proceedings of the 3rd National Conference on Private Higher Education Institutions (PHEIs) in Ethiopia original
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