Ethiopia’s new education policy pending approval from parliament
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- 06 Apr 2023
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English language to be offered starting from grade 1 while Ethiopia’s national language will be offered from grade 3, conditionally. Parliament will have to stamp it before it is implemented
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s cabinet on Monday said that it has approved a new education policy. It will be replacing the existing one which has been in use for about 28 years. But it will have to be approved by the parliament first.
There has not been a precedent since Abiy Ahmed took power, even before him, whereby the parliament rejected policy decisions from the council of ministers.
Based on the report from ENA, state-owned media, the council of Ministers did see undesirable shortcomings of the outgoing system.
The council believed that it did not encourage indigenous knowledge, did not produce citizens that create jobs and did not encourage innovation and technology.
It did also have a disastrous consequence on the quality of education including a university-level education.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s cabinet believes that the “new” Education and Training Policy will bring about change in terms of addressing the problems from the old system.
The new policy is to introduce a 6-2-4 system – six years of elementary education, two years of junior school education and four years of high school education. Read More…
