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Well done who ever did this.

Education is power.

Vin

It is good to do this. But the issue should about the quality of education.

It is really good thing to invest in education. Do the new Universities will have enough supply of electricity?

It is good to do this. But the issue shoulid be about quility of education. We have sending graduates to teach in university haonly due to their political view. This should be taken seriously. It is all about generation!!

I don't know the state of the universities in other regions (specially in the north) but I visited some of the new universities in the central and southern part our country - or shall I just call it our country.

If Nazret.com would allow me, I can share recent photos of 'a university'. They say they are new but are already old; they are dirty and almost no facilities.

I just read from TPLF web site (Aiga) that "16000 Tigrean university students are currently involved in a Summer “Wufer Tebeges” Campaign" -- ahha. There are more than 16000 university students from Tigray.

How many are there from Oromia, Amhara, Somali, etc by the way? Even if there were as many, most of those will go to those so called new but already rotten universities.

ENA - you bunch of idiots!
I must say I am looking forward for the day that "they" are gone, and the quicker, the better!

Actually, more and more I feel I don’t care if the country splits up; disintegration may not be bad at all than endless tribal troubles. Each region will do better than now - except the parasitic one.

Ayeresu! I concur your observations. Just compare any facility in non tigrean area with Tigray.It's black and white. Truely, it's apartheid system Non tigrayans are facing! Please post the pictures! Gondar international airport? what a joke Abeba Gondar!!Do not even have a ruway nor a fire engine. so passangers have to board on and off

The budget allocation is done based on population ratio there is nothing that has been done in fever to Tigrai. the important thing is the institutionalisation process in Tigrai is strong and our people are workholik with less coruption and with vision of seeing Tigrai region to be on good stand and position in socio economic development in thecoming decade. Jelous OlF, G7, Shabia and Kinjit advocaters of jelousy and envey against Tigrai people it is better if you focus to strengthen your regional institution and by far looking and aspiring bright future to your people, unless you will be come the slave of the seven regions people of Ethiopian .

The budget allocation is done based on population ratio there is nothing that has been done in fever to Tigrai. the important thing is the institutionalisation process in Tigrai is strong and our people are workholik with less coruption and with vision of seeing Tigrai region to be on good stand and position in socio economic development in thecoming decade. Jelous OlF, G7, Shabia and Kinjit advocaters of jelousy and envey against Tigrai people it is better if you focus to strengthen your regional institution and by far looking and aspiring bright future to your people, unless you will be come the slave of the seven regions people of Ethiopian .

Ayeresu, Zora,

You guys it is high time you start being reasonable and balanced. You are making fools out of yourselves. These are universities for the nation whether they are in Tigrai, somali, or Afar - are u joking or you are sharing with us your best. My question to you, what would you do if you were given government leadership in Ethiopia today? butcher all Tigreans and develop your village? Ignor Afar, Somali and other communities and making ethiopia equal to Amhara or Oromo? Why are u worried so much about Ethnicity and behave like doom prophets?
Ayeresu, have u ever gone to any university for studies by any means? What you are saying is hopeless!! You are good for nothing and that is why for years you will say much more and Ethiopia will continue as a nation.

You guys Tigreans are really ruling you such that you even don't spend a minute without insulting or wishing them bad luck. They are working and you are barking. For Afars, their time has been better but I still would like better government than the current one!!
You have to embark on working for you country in inclusive way and in a better ways, guys.
If you want to separate yourself from Ethiopia - the sooner the better but you can't and that is why u r washing dishes there. It is not about day dreaming, guys neither about hatred.
About the quality - I really share the idea. As a country, our future lies in the quality and coverage of our education and the content of our education should solve our problems and should encourage our aspirations.
Ethiopia, move on - let sycophants bark and bite themselves. Let them cry blood.

Afari Sifari - Ethiopia my love!!

Abebe GALLAw,

Abebe besso bela. Abebe come to an one of these universities and you will be given a scholarship.
As you are. you are so raw and wild.

Abebe GALLAw,

Abebe besso bela. Abebe come to any one of these universities and you will be given a scholarship.
As you are, you are so raw and wild.

Dear friends,
Governments world over have problems even where you are working or living so be human and don't create animosity by your irresponsible comments about the good things others have done without doing a drop of any good. What you are doing is not politics but preaching of division!!

The regional governments in wherever you come from in Ethiopia buy extremely expensive cars in excess and steal the money for themselves and you guys blame Tigrean for nothing. If your own people can steal from your own people - why are you guys sick about Tigreans - that strengthens them because they know you hate them and the will work accordingly.

The problem with such philosophy is = it will never help our country in any way. It wouldn't help your health or your heathens (your supporters) at all.Let us grow.
In Afar literally, a lot of money is corrupted and taken away by local leaders who were entrusted for local development - surely is it appropriate to be alcoholic in blaming Tigreans for our problems without doing our homework?

Good judgment takes a lot of hardwork and emotional sacrifices.

Good job - is the building of more universities. commendable.

Afari Sifari

Afari Sifari:

You gave a reasonable, and by large correct comment!

I just wanted to add the good old Afar saying "The camels continue their journey as the dogs bark"

Ethiopia has changed not to go back! That is just a fact.

Woyaness send "attractive messages" when they are in trouble.
They circulate news like Ethiopian Airlines will buy so many airplanes. besides building of universities in different regions.
This is a sheer propaganda scheme to divert the international as well as local attention
In fact out of 10, one is not accomplished properly.
So or so the money goes to the bandit Woyane clique.
There is no standard university at all in Ethiopia.
Under Woyane masters degree is equivalent to HIM (haileSelassie high school graduate)
bachlers degree(HaileSelassies 8th grade finisher).
The is no quality as such under this ignorant guirella fighters.

Please answer me,

About ERITREA?

What about in Eritrea= Erena? any new university? I heard anyone who finishes one or two years in 'technical colleges' military training centres' with different range of ammunitions in Eritrea. Performance is rewarded with military equipments.
Once Zeru Senai run very well and up on return there was dominant suggestions around the tiny proudly oppressed country that zeru senai should have been awarded with a TANK.
Halafi Mengedi, any comment? or er93, any suggestion. this time round it is shame for your fake independence,guys. Ajukha Alah alo - koh yamaroy = kare bada

Afari Sifari reporting for Nazaret from Ethiopia- his beloved country

Let's "BUILT" all 10-universities in "TEGRAY", to only educate the available 1000 senior citzens and retires, since evryone else is busy looting something, somwhere and don't have time for college bullshit.

I wonder how many universities in Ethiopia meet global standard expectations, or how many students and teachers would pass if the standard proficiency examination offered? My point is building universities without the basic facility will be just a number, nothing else!! No electricity, no bathroom, no books (science), SW, HW, library facility, research centers (for graduate and undergraduate students), no qualified instructors, and it doesn’t meet even the African university standers, so what is the point of having 100 universities, or 10, or one..? Quality has to come first! Universities are not “boutiques”

i heared thy are changing all the ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS to UNIVERSITIES all over the country

oh, no, this must have sent a wave of shock to the already suicidal people of Artera whose source of pride and hope comes from hating and wishing ethiopia bad. tough luck, but needless to say it's becoming too clear that Ethiopia is better off without you rats. it will be even better if and when we get rid of the ugly Eritrean lover(Meles) from arat killo. No matter how much you vomit on Nazret.com under ethiopian names, you are too little too poor to make a deference. by the way, i just found out from the recently released Addis ababa annual budget that your overall national budget is equal to that of Cherkos sub-city in Addis. I am not joking.

bravo Ethiopian

Despite the fact that we appreciate expansion of institutions,The first question that this govt must think is How effective the institutions are!and what innovative people are created out of these institutions.
As we know most of the recently built institutions are of with many Dislocations in human power,basic facilities let alone advanced scientific equipments.
so building many 'yechika bet'like institutions with out having nothing to process what is coming in(the students)and equip them ,is by far as disadvantageous as wasting resources.
The Ethiopian government must stop doing things like 'ye kaka chewata'against his people just for show up.I would rather prefer the government add more budget for the already built institutions so that they atleast will have some of the basic needs that an institution at least must minimum have!

How many universities does Tigray need? may be as many as the number of its population so that everybody can be lecture for himself and all budget is channeled to them, kkkkk. For that matter even in Samara, Gode, Jijga etc universities, the lecturers whose cGPA is below 1.75 are from Tigray. Imagine what kind of generation they are going to create. Weyane== generation KILLER, LOATER, BLOOD SUCKER ........

[YD, There are currently 21 state universities in Ethiopia, see the list above. How many of them are in the state of Tigray? ]

one more comment for nazret.com,
It seems that some of the universities have web page links but They can not be accessed here,do you have any idea why if you gave us the proper link? or can you update your web page with the right link so that interested people around the globe can visit them and get relevant information please
Thank you!

"THE CAMELS CONTINUE THEIR JOURNEY AS THE DOGS BARK."
What a saying.this is the only way those coward dogs ,who can't hide their jealousy would understand.
For the last eighteen years or so ,the coward dogs were barking foul for every achievment the ethiopian government or an endividual ethiopian accomplish.but there is nothing they can do to stop it. Their teeth is plucked out,they have no clows,only barking.
ETHIOPIA CONTINUES HER JOURNEY UNDER THE GREAT LEADERSHIP OF PM. MELES AND WOYANES.

Tigress, Afari Sifari, other insulters…

Your response is the same, I don’t mean the two of you but all of you. It looks as if someone whispers in your ears. It seems you have your own communication network.

Honestly, when someone complains about the unfairness in our country [ ‘ours’ is a tricky word here], your response is:
1) Yes … we are developing because we are hard working, intelligent, etc
2) Ten you say, ‘ahha you are an Interhamwe’, or something like that ..
3) And then comes your barrage of smear and insult.

Let me say a few words about these three behaviour of yours:
1) If development in Ethiopia is a ‘function of’ being hard working, then the Gurage’s are known to be the most hard working and also the most clear in dealing with money – they say. Well, we know they are decimated! – in business terms. Let me tell you, no ethnic group is more hard working, cleaver or otherwise than another inherently. If you think like that you must be Nazi’s.

2) No one wants to do genocide, directly like the Interhamwe’s or indirectly like TPLF (not only now but even long time ago TPLF actually starved many Tigians by diverting aid food and robbing aid trucks and selling it all in Sudan and setting up business there). The end of the genociders is always bad.

3) I never mind the bad words to me – the smears and the like. Because, we are not kids. Moreover, my audience is not you. I inform my compatriots [I don’t know if you are my compatriots]. I know how powerful information is.

But there is a way out. If we stop insulting, if we – the people - inform ourselves, have civilized conversation, open up our hearts and try to be fair and good, then our problems will be solved. But I think time is running out – fast.

Welldone Ethiopia.

Keep going with your good work.

Education is the key for improving the lives of many......

False hope, made in Abay Tigrai, right before election!

Oh McDonald had a farm...

Lie, lie here,
Lie Lie there,
Lie lie everywhere!

"10 new universities" in food-aid dependent Ethiopia, when there are 10 million human made famine victims, in front of World economic crisis?

Hasu beleni hasu,
Kumal riEya kitfesu!

can any one telling me how many ph.d holder ethiopia has living in the country, i mean real ph.d not a fake one weyanne hand out for their cadres, my guss is probanly less than 200 so who will teach in the so called universities, probably the junior and senior high school teachers that i wittnesed in jijiga university

Anfeqa [Visitor]


Well said brother.


They must know that a simple concrete building wont solve anything. there need be some kind of quilty of education.

This is good plan becuase education is power and the more our people are educated the better...


It is good start but I thing the government needs to do more in education and job creations. Good work...keep it rolling. It is well needed plan and I hope they will build the schools sooner rather than later. One thing I cannot stand looking at teh map is the way our counrty is cut-off from the sea!
Z-Mike

ZXAmiche
You are not the x-Amiche,U r still amiche thats why you like to visit the Ethiopian web sites.
Tell me how many universities do you have in Eri-Tria other than SAWA UNIVERSITY.

it is all a stupid dream by the Ethnoaparthad click!
We will never vote for you!
Go away!

It is good news! However, it is no mystery that basic and even primary education of women changes a whole society within one generation. This is per economical study. Education of women should be encouraged if we want development. Educated women are more likely to have less children (means less poverty for family). Educated women are more likely to make sure their children are educated. Educated women are likely to earn a better living. I wishe it was cumpulsory to educate girls first and then increase the age girls are getting married in the rural areas to 17 or 18. If our country focused on education, it would create a cultural revolution. Would help us to think and assess issues rather than rely on werre bicha...

The idea is great. If Ethiopia can afford to do that I see it as a good thing. However, there must be something called standard.

In reality, these institution better called colleges. There is difference between university and college. University is big institution which can have several colleges within it. Probably all these new colleges could have been under one big university.

If Ethiopia has to be competitive in science and technology it should focus on quality of education rather than quantity. At the same time for a country like Ethiopia who is starving for educated leaders it might be good idea to have many colleges who can train young experts such as extension agents to serve as bridges between growers and science and research.

My final verdict on this one is that it is good if it is functional. It must not be some thing like for numbers only or for propaganda purpose. You can name all mud houses a university and then what? Over all better than nothing.

For over 50 years Ethiopia had one university with capacity of 5,000 students at most, mainly for the privileged Neftegnas and their son’s only. The reason for the abject poverty in Ethiopia today can actually be traced to this discriminatory policy of the regimes that favored few amaras now barking everywhere when access to university education has become an entitlement to all Ethiopians without distinction of creed , tribe or religion. Frankly speaking we need about 40 universities (at least 1 for each 2million people). So the government’s blue print for education is the way forward to extricate the nation from age-old poverty. Quality will improve over time and step by step. India also passed through the same stage in the not-to-distant past. Government should double the effort to change Ethiopia and forget discards of the past era. It is a chronic disease; some are conditioned to spit hate and not to appreciate anything.

Yo... Diaspora Chihuahuas.... where are you guys today? yesterday in a different page you were in full force finding anything to complain about and criticizing Ethiopian First Lady.
Today suddenly you become mute? or maybe you should remove that muzzle from your mouth reeking with cheap alcohol and profusely express your admiration how swiftly the country is moving ahead.

Please use exploding adjectives such as Fantastic..Unbelievable.. Unheard of .. Be honest with your deep feelings and explicitly write your admiration about Meles Adm. Put aside your envious outdated politics and give credit where and when it is due.

It is like there is some kind of seismic shift in our beautiful land from North to South ... from East to West things are shaking and moving ahead and we are not waiting for our Burtukan to give birth to another illegitimate son

One more thing the current government should do is to create some kind of an ombudsman office in every major city to check and balance the nepotism and all kind of complaints against Government. If these offices are properly functioning then all complaints should be resolved in more democratic way.
Another thing the government should start creating more jobs for our graduates
Yo Meles I just hope you are listening to me. I know I am still too young but I am full of ideas that should be implemented in the country to shut the mouth of the very soon expiring Diaspora oldies

Something is better than nothing. I am happy to hear that we will be having new universities in the near future. Let’s build them first and we will worry about quality later. Some people are unbelievably naive. They are always negative just because they don't like the government.

Tigress,
I have remained against many oppositions who characterize woyane's dominance in Ethiopian political and economic life as "Tigray colony" but my dear whatever crap you wrote here is exactly what European colonizers used to say about Africans. As somebody else mentioned here, many Ethiopians praise the Gurages as hard working (which, btw, is wrong prejudice to general) and also contribute the lions share of tax, can you tell me the number of universities, airports, hospitals, roads, etc your woyane has built for the last 18 years? Is it because based on woyane's research at Dedebit school of social studies that you found them lazy?
If you want to help your woyane, please stop blogging.

Excellent job!!!!

good but do not forget to provide electricity as we know it..without electricity building euniverisities won't mean anything.

Tigrean students do not go to the new universities because the education there is not good due to shortage of qualified teaching staff. Most of them go to AAU. Woyane takes every opportunity to work for its people.

Let’s say the concept of having a multiple educational institutes in every part of the country is the way to go to progress. However, building institutions involves permanent cost of operation, modern college facilities, employee salary, maintenances and utility expenses …etc, considering all this the first question is where did the money come to fund all this (Ministry of Education)? The previous discussion about the unfairness of budget distribution is a clue that eventually budget is going to be a big issue. So the question is who is going to fund the expense? What are the long term plans and quality of the knowledge? Why is it necessary to open 10 colleges at one time? Just curious!! By all means I am not being distractive.

According to EPRDF, it is the quantity that can be measured. The quality doesn't matter.

Sol

Has woyane hired some people to write comments on Ethiopian blogs?

Sol

woyanes need to build a high school for nazret.com staffs because they are not qualified to run this useless banda website. long live ETHIOPIA.

It is great that the country is diverting some resource from the military and the brutality towards education. Education is the base for success. Any one who noticed the development of India would bare witness.

My only problem is, wouldn't it be better if we start from the bottom and build up. With the 10 new to be built, Ethiopia will have 31 universities. Mind you we have comparable number of colleges, very few privet universities and numerous privet colleges. I think it would be smarter and more practical to strengthen our elementary and high schools and also literate the rural community.

What say you ethiopians!!!!!!!!

Kebezat Tirat new aydel yemebalew. I guess the one we have right now should be enough, and equipped all those institutes with all kinds of educational materials. Thats what they should be focusing instead of adding a number of Universities. Again, its nothing wrong with that, in fact its great to see much higher educational institution in our country with a quality.

God bless

MIT (Mekele Institute of Technology), TIGRAY UNIVERSITY

Wushaw Yichuh zihonu mengedun yiketilal!!

VIVA Meles!

God Bless Ethiopia!

Ayeresu,

Yekoshashaw mich yantew koshasha wondim enji not EPRDF.

But it is true quality and service should be the focus now.

Being a second populous country in Africa, there is a desperate needs to build as much unversity as we can.

Although such mass based approach will compromise quality in the short run, it will create a healthy competition among graduates and universities so that the society will benefit from it.

In the past, tertiary education was only for the luckiest few who ridicule their society because they got that chance. But as the number of universities increase, the chance of entering there will broaden. Besides, we start to get large number of gradutes who use their education/knowledge as a weapon to get their society out of the vicious poverty circle.

Hope most of our farmers in the future will be university graduates who are specialists in seed selections and irrigations.

I can see light for my country at the end of the tunnel.

Some ppl are very blind ...unable to put a single justification for their disagreement

YD...u r one of them...If u have no idea about the minimum CGPA required to graduate is atleast 2.00 but U said there graduates with 1.75.....It shows me that u and may be your close relatives have no idea about higher institution. From ur comments I can see that Ur parents let u join in the school of hatred... Dont u think that the new universities(even with low quality) will save some citizens from joining ur hatred department and white lie?

Wake up bro...dont lie again..dumb ass.

Nazrets..I like the feedback u gave to the dumbass YD, but it would be nice if U included the minimum CGPA required to graduate too, ....Nazrets..U r so neutral, keep it rolling.'
Salut

A paranoid diaspora had given up hope both in him/her self and his country. The only thing that comes out of their mouth is the evidence which is dispair, dispise and disagreeable.

Due to the fact that they either could not finish or did not get the chance to step in the quality educational institutions in the past today as a revange these bastards who held their whole life with the inferiority complex are killing the highly respected higher institutions by galvanising with with low level the so called empty universities even w/c can not be equated with elementary schools standards. It is shame to see one person killing the whole nation. It looks like vendeta based tribal competition focused on the ewxpansion of universities. Do these people realy know the meaning of university or they doing on purpose to destroy century old effort with in short time time.

Amazing. This should be good news to all Ethiopians. But, some actually deem this news as bad and dare to leave their childish and idiotic comments. What is wrong with you haters? Are you guys so stupid that you cannot possibly see the importance of education and having more and more universities in a country that not more than 17 yeas ago had one University?

Keta I would have given you a logical response but your hate filled and childish comment exposes you as a confused Eriro who is burrning by jealousy. I will pray for idiots like you so you may wallow in your ignorant state of mind as long as you are alive.

To Ababu I am sorry to hurt your feeling if I did it is not intentional. You are the out come of the system and you are not responsible whatever happened b/se I could have done the same as beneficiary if rendered the same way. However, as individual you have still chance to improve yourself so long you have or build self esteem in your future.
Please it is not jelous as you said or childish behavior or hate. I just worried about the cause happening now in the country.
A piece of advise for you need to grow up and have life.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD NEWS VIVA MELES
VIVA EPDRF
V

i just want to say, i really liked reading all the comments and everybody's point of view here on nazret.com. It gave a chance to analyze and see things in different directions.

Thank You.

DIRT BAG DAMN AGAAMEES DON'T NEED UNIVERSITIES BUT ETHIOPIANS DO.

zora

You are simply a racist and narrow minded "dedeb"....just know the facts before hatin'

peace

all ur stupied....non sense comments

please don't waste ur time .no one need EPDRF to be in power ..we hate tigryas ,they r even phobia for us.. i hate Tigrya lanuage

Hi all. I have never seen such a big junk of comments and ideas on the blogs before. I just went through them very roughly but, if not all, most are negative and fail to understand the need of educated people in Ethiopia.
I think we need universities. No single university in the world has ever started its life with all needed resources and qualities. This is just the beginning and we have to optimistic. I understand the distribution of these universities may have not been fair and need to orient the needs of the region. I am sure the infrastructures will drain money from the government to the good start instead spending somewhere in the Somali desert or Eritrean boarder when in fact we are sick of war. I am still optmistic that these universities will grow, develop and make a significant contribution to the economy of the country and the well-being of the indiviaduals (Ethiopians, I mean). Let us wait and see rather than running into blind conclusions.

i staunchly support the plan, and any future ruling body should also keep the ambitions and build more educational infrastructure. However, the quality and the form of education in Ethiopia needs to be revisited.

Abel Beyene:
I read your comment. I am interested to know where and from who you learn such ridiculous story about the university system of Ethiopia.

If you happen to take some witness stand in your life in the future, please tell the judge you have problem in telling the truth.

way to go I always support education move. I hope this time west is included

All this talk is for so called election coi.

This government could only trusted when it allows free election free speech and when they come back as leader we will trust them.

All this talk is cheap and even if it is built there will always be game anless government is accountable and there is not free speach.

Please let us trust you!

Please!

Leave the office for elected members allow the type to lead to come forward with out your threat of labling people Terorist when you are the one!

Yeager Lij,

I have been advocating that in order to eliminate poverty the Government has to confront and fight two front lines. One accelerate economic growth, the second one is family planning. Your suggestion is part of the family planning for long term reducing population growth and increase females work forces by encouraging them to go to school and graduate with Diploma and degrees. One of the factor will contribute female incremental participating in school is as the countryside become more urban cities kids go to school in early age. I think Ethiopia has a good chance most of rural areas become urbanized as economic progress motorized in every corner of the county after most of the planned Dams completed. Mean time, the Government should ask teachers, students, churches and mosques, radio, TV, print news papers, union employees and other organizations in the country to participate teaching family planning not to have kids beyond their economic means to send them to school or raise them properly and the less kids they have in each family the more healthier to the household in general and good for the country to advance in every sector of the economy and the country can reach to middle class families as the western country life.

Speaking of quality of education, I wish the parliament adapt English as the means of communication for the Federal Government and native languages for each region. Kids are spending too much time on different languages. They should study just two languages native and English. MEDREK party manifesto stated that they include Oromia as another national language which is Latin Ethiopian kids to study four languages and expected to master all of them and learn other fields in English. This absolutely crime against the nation and it is very irresponsible act to serve those leaders to get some votes on the expense of the country in long term problems.

geleltgnawe,

As you stated you hate Tigray and Tigrigna language. I do have the same feelings about Amharic language not to be thought in class in other region of the country. English should be the national language common to all of us and will be the unifier and accelerates our integration as one society. But I do not hate Amhara people or the language. My point is Amharic should be for the Amhara people as Tigrigna is for Tigray people. If you hate other ethnic groups as you stated it, then you can not have one Ethiopia united country. Your attitude will drive others to seek their own state as independent country instead of living in hat rage in one fake country.

Remember, if you want to be loved by others, you must love others otherwise you will be treated as you treat them.

It is simple,
Halafi Mendgedi, don't worry. If we separate each one will gain something but all of us will loose something.

Afar people will unite from Eritrea up to Djibouti and will be a big rich nation.

But unity is better and i support it and Amharic can unite us - if people don't want - let them go to hell.

All have blood in their veins and not water or milk, if we fight - that is the logic, they know it, we know it.
Unity is a choice.
Afari likes one Ethiopia - our diversity is our beauty and source of strength.

when the institute of AMBASHA STUDIES WILL BE OPEN????

A good move worthy of applause and encouragement. Keep it up!

It is better to feed the poor instead of building universities. Anyway this is the result of wrong adm. Mot le weyane.

Seida,

are u telling me what cGPA is or how did i put their cGPA below 1.75? If your question is the later one, yes I can proof it to u. Most of those who are lecturer with this cGPA are weyane cadres who spent their time in university through multiple probation (i mean by earsing their D's and F's), their apparent cGPA is greater than 2.0 but their really cGPA is less than 1.75. First these cadres are employed as adminstrative workers in different university for couple of months and finally they end up as lecturer and compete with others for their graduate study which favours them to join as they have membership cards! Gebito, Seida?

nazet.com thanks for ur info!

Under TPLF soon will be possible to start your education from university and after graduation you will learn how to read and write.

Fake TPLF they do everything for deception. In these new universities there is no course how to create liberation front. Such as Mekele People Liberation Front, Adwa People Liberation Front, etc. That is your next step.

It is important to teach students how to form districts liberation front. It will be easy if the course will be given at university level.

The people of ERIAREs have 0 Univerisitys.wowwwwwwww.

For the sake of justice. All 10 universities should belong to Abay Tigray. All Amhara should not get a single one. This is because Amhara they had already go their share 100 years ago. This is our time and should get our big share.

Anyone should oppose, let me know!

Hey guys let's atleast be positive for education sake...tha's the one and only loop that we have to get out of poverty...I always shame that our poverty is not only economical but attitudinal. Be fair and hold responsibilty to whatever we scribble here cuz attitude is contagious. I wish to see the day that we come to agree atleast in issues that are unconditionally positive and indespensable to our development.

stay cool

Do you know that during the time of hayleselase and the derg gevernment looks that 90% of the students are coming from the modern or rich families except very few from of poor and rular areas. Tanks to this government even universities are there near to the pesants. This is a very big development.The quality improves step by step to the best it can.

What ever it is education is sperading all over the country. Unversities are bulding near by the pesants and to all rular areas. This is a big development. Every body knows during the time of hayleselase and derg government the very limeted chance of the pesant folowing his study in the universities.

Dear kibrom [Visitor],

As you already may know, Doctor of Philosophy (abbreviated, PhD, Ph.D., or alternatively, DPhil (meaning "teacher of philosophy") or Research Doctorate [not to be confused with professional doctoral degrees like MD or DVM] is an advanced (and in many Anglophone countries, the highest) academic degree entailing a difficult and long years of intensive training and research in a wide array of disciplines under the different circumstances in the science and humanities with a different but highly demanding requirements as specified by the different universities in many different countries. Despite some variations in the specific institutional requirements and/or national educational policies, all trainings leading to a PhD degree basically involve completion of a prescribed amount of graduate courses (coursework), high-level independent scientific research with a truthful and original contribution to ones specific field of knowledge within the framework of academic excellence, presenting the new discovery or original contribution to science in a PhD thesis or dissertation form and subsequently, and a final “oral exam” or defense [referred in the UK and many other universities worldwide as a viva (from viva voce— by word of mouth)] to a panel of] examiners board.

Although not a universal requirement, a (2 – 3 years) Master’s degree [which may also be awarded “in passing” or “in course” based on the graduate work done in the course of achieving the PhD] in a related field [with sufficiently high grades and proven research ability] is a usual requirement often demanded of applicants by a number of universities as part of the requirement for enrollment into a PhD program. Often symbolizing the zenith of one’s success in his/her academic career, validation of a PhD degree usually requires 3-5 (and at times, even more) years after the Master’s degree or up to 10 years after a Bachelor’s degree depending on the field of study and curricular specifications of the universities. As could be surmised from these, the road to a PhD is not at all a smoother route but rather, one of exhaustive, draining, frustrating, and not uncommonly, even a confusing venture.

For academicians from developing countries like ours, not only rare are available opportunities for the pursuance of PhD training (especially when the undergraduate degrees of applicants are from local universities not recognized and/or accredited by international standardization institutions at odds with the high emphasis universities abroad often put this issue), but due also of the gloomy and less rewarding opportunities poor countries offer to such high-skilled intellectuals in terms of advancing their professional careers, make optimal contributions to the best of their level of training, as well as meeting their academic and social obligations under the existing realities of third-world countries all culminating in incurring a strong ‘push-force’ to a number of PhD holders who fail to return back upon completion of their studies abroad. As you well have surmised [and to the dismay of many], this partly or largely explains for the limited number of PhD holders [those with postdoctoral training (a sort of no man's land between being a student (though more independent that a student) and having an actual job (only involving a training contract of sorts, without the benefits of being faculty) is out of the question!] currently living and/or serving in the country [a number by far lower than Ethiopian PhD holders serving in various reputed universities and institutions abroad].

Though one of the most unfortunate and difficult situations the country had to contend with, such preferences for high-skilled Ethiopian PhD-holder to remain and/or serve in western universities is neither a new development nor is one of the best decisions of choice they make casually, but one of the natural attributes of human beings to seek for better opportunities and/or more satisfactions in life [indeed, contrary to the expectations of many, the only real-life rewards developing countries like ours offer to such highly trained and sophisticated intellectuals after their long years of arduous study is a series of life ordeals with a promise that extends to no further than winning them ‘certified recognition’ to just append those two letters (Dr.) singly, or if most lucky to also have an additional professional (MD/DVM) or honorary doctorate, doubly (Dr. Dr.) to their names, and being greeted publicly as a Doctor- sorry for the extreme negativity implied but that practically is the ground-zero reality] furthering the drift you implied by your first query [… how many PhD holder Ethiopia has living in the country?].

Another logical drift implied by your second query [and for a very good reason!] is the issue of junior and senior high school teachers filling university positions in the country except that you preferred to express this as one of a “probability” which I would prefer to express as one of “inescapable realities” given the large number of the newly opened universities over the past few years and the responsibilities therein of meeting their institutional obligations and responsibilities albeit below expected standards. There also is a comforting issue to consider: with the more or less general limitations in supportive training resource [teaching aids, reference materials, and/or facilities] in the extant (both old and new) universities in the country, the margin of difference in terms of delivery of training and quality issues attributable to instructors with different levels of academic qualification [whether a Bachelor’s, Master’s, and/or PhD degree holder] is more likely to be of minor significance [after all, even the pioneer universities of the country are far from adequate to accommodate instructors with PhD’s with the necessary provisions compatible with their highly-demanding levels of training and/or professional skills]. Mind you! I’m not saying that the quality of education doesn’t suffers with the low level of training of the instructors; just forwarding a pointing for consideration that this is a general and well recognized problem even in the few pioneer universities with little to no bearing or relevance specific to the newly opened universities per se. What is more, the bulk of instructors in the pioneer universities are MSc. holders with very few who made it to PhD [for the reasons mentioned above].

And finally, [unless I understood it wrongly for which I express my apologies in advance] the negative connotation entailed in your final note of remark about Jigjiga University also merits correction when perceived in these contexts. To add a note or two on this, against all oddities, Jigjiga University is one of the very few recently opened universities well recognized and appreciated for the stunningly rapid progress and advance it recorded even at its earliest stages of infancy [a reputation due the skills, experiences, and dedication of its administrative and academic staff]. What more, it is also one of the very few institutions [both old and new] with real causes to claim an unparalleled opportunity for further advancement and enormous potential for rapid progress over a relatively few years to come given its strategic location to serve an international center of excellence on Pastoralism and its modes of survival [which, by the way, is one of the main institutional missions and goals well emphasized and articulated in its establishment document] that is gaining increasing recognition and popularity among local, regional, and international academic and development institutions worldwide as one of the most efficient and adaptive modes of life under the most challenging real life situations.

With regards

Tigrean students do not go to the new universities because the education there is not good due to shortage of qualified teaching staff. Most of them go to AAU. Woyane takes every opportunity to work for its people.

Afari Sifari


Keep telling these folks the reality and truth!!!

Its 2000 and damn 9 our beautiful queens and her babies are lacking food, clothes and shelter

And all of you weak a z z folks in the west just talk BS all day and long.

If you do not stand together you will not make it to the next century believe that.

We are one. I myself am mixed with at least 3 ethnicity

But I Ethiopian first and a pan-afrakan second. Fk all that tribal shyt

How can a man cry about some tribal bs when he is most likely mixed himself and his Queens and her babies are dying??

We must lock arms today and start nation building.

In one way or anather, Education is the base. The chance is vast to join the universities this days. This wil be a start and wil the quality wil improve step by step. Paris is not build in one day.

Dear kibrom [Visitor],

Sorry for the long and clumsy expressions used above (on my comment about PhD). As a reward, enjoy Isaac Newton’s First law of Mechanics [The “Law of Inertia”] on the prediction of a doctoral graduation.

“A grad student in procrastination tends to stay in procrastination unless an external force is applied to it.”

Dear kibrom [Visitor],

Sorry for the long and clumsy expressions used above (on my comment about PhD). As a reward, enjoy Isaac Newton’s First law of Mechanics [The “Law of Inertia”] on the prediction of a doctoral graduation, and the Ethiopian version of his Third law [The “Law of Action and Reaction”].

The “Law of Inertia”

“A grad student in procrastination tends to stay in procrastination unless an external force is applied to it.”

The “Law of Action and Reaction”

‘Beseferut k’una mesefer ayik’erim.’

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