Financial Contributions to Engineering Capacity Building Programme (ECBP) in Ethiopia

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ContextRelevant skill acquisition is a prerequisite for employment and productivity at work. The Ethiopian Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP) assigns a key role to the education sector for accelerating economic growth, achieving developmental goals and becoming a middle-income country by 2025. While the country has made great progress in quantitative expansion of tertiary education, quality and relevance are still lagging behind.The capacities of the key actors of the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector and the higher education sector are too low to ensure a demand-oriented education and ensure that the education sector develops a skilled workforce that meets the requirements of the economy in the near future.ObjectiveThe deployment of international long-term and short-term experts at vocational training institutions and higher education institutions contributes to improved quality of education in the subsectors of higher education and vocational training.Approach and resultsIn the field of higher education, the project introduced practice-oriented postgraduate curricula and improved the teaching quality at the universities. The quality of the respective study programmes was improved through more than 100 courses offered by international partner universities. The training of 53 PhD candidates was improved significantly thought study and research abroad. The new study programmes are anchored in the partner universities’ programme and have started.In the TVET sector, the project supported the teachers’ training through the deployment of international trainers into the national teachers training institute and reformed the assessment system for teachers. Almost 5.000 TVET teachers (incl. more than 1.000 female teachers) were certified. 2.500 assessors were certified for the assessment of graduates and technical staff selected fields.

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