Education in Ethiopia : Strengthening the Foundation for Sustainable Progress
With the end of civil war in 1991, Ethiopia's government launched a New Education and Training Policy in 1994 which, by the early 2000s, had already produced remarkable results. The gross enrollment ratio rose from 20 to 62 percent in primary...
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Format: | Publication |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2012
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/07/6427938/education-ethiopia-strengthening-foundation-sustainable-progress http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7434 |
Summary: | With the end of civil war in 1991,
Ethiopia's government launched a New Education and
Training Policy in 1994 which, by the early 2000s, had
already produced remarkable results. The gross enrollment
ratio rose from 20 to 62 percent in primary education
between 1993-94 and 2001-02; and in secondary and higher
education it climbed, respectively, from 8 to 12 percent and
from 0.5 to 1.7 percent. Yet the government can hardly
afford to rest on its laurels. Primary education is still
not universal, and already there are concerns about
plummeting educational quality and the growing pressures to
expand post-primary education. Addressing these challenges
will require more resources, both public and private. Yet
money alone is insufficient. Focusing on primary and
secondary education, this report argues for wise tradeoffs
in the use of resources-a result that will often require
reforming the arrangements for service delivery. These
changes, in turn, need to be fostered by giving lower levels
of government more leeway to adapt central standards-such as
those for teacher recruitment and school construction-to
local conditions, including local resource constraints; and
by strengthening accountability for results at all levels of
administration in the education system. |
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