The results of the national school leaving examination results announced this week by the Ministry of Education have once again shaken Ethiopians to the core. Experts in the field have contended that Ethiopia’s education policy, which has been in force since 1994, is one of the major factors behind the nation’s poor education quality, pointing that the focus on expanding access to education at the price of quality. As controversial as the national school leaving exam results understandably are, the solution is not and cannot be to ascribe blame solely to previous governments. Should all the actors that have a stake in the education sector are truly desirous to overcoming the fundamental reasons explaining the plethora of challenges that account for this year’s horrendous showing and put their heads together, they can make a headway into fixing Ethiopia’s poor education quality. It’s only then that an enduring solution which helps usher in a new era of quality education can become a reality.

Source: Ethiopian News October 14, 2023 13:37 UTC