| Yizengaw Teshome has been the Vice
Minister for Higher Education, Ministry of Education
in Ethiopia since October 2001. Before that he has
served as Head of the Higher Education Academic
and Research Affairs Department of the Ministry
of Education between 1998 and 2001, and Vice-Dean
for Administration and Development of Ambo College
of Agriculture, 1997-1998.
Dr Teshome obtained his Masters (1990) and Ph.D.
(1995) in Soil Sciences from the University of
Gent, Belgium. He is currently Associate Professor
in Ambo College and Debub University in Ethiopia.
As Vice Minister for Higher Education, Dr. Teshome
has been instrumental in the recent expansion
and reform of higher education in Ethiopia. During
his tenure, the number of universities has increased
from two to eight, private education has been
introduced and mushroomed, and the number of students
in higher education institutions has increased
from about forty thousand to about two hundred
thousand.
His major research interests include expanding
access to higher education while keeping quality
and standards and re-engineering leadership and
management systems. He has attended training and
seminars in the UK, The Netherlands, Norway, France,
Kenya, USA, Ghana and India in higher education
administration and management, quality assurance
and enhancement, implications of globalization
for higher education in the South, strategic choices
for tertiary education.
Selected Papers
- Policy Development in Higher Education
in Ethiopia and the Role of Donors and Development
Partners. Paper presented at the International
Expert Meeting-"The Changing Higher Education
Landscape"; The Hague, 23-24, May, 2005.
- The Status and Challenges of Ethiopian
Higher Education System and its Contribution
to Development. Ethiopian Journal of Higher
Education, Vol 1, No.1, 2004
- Transformations in Higher Education: Experiences
with Reform and Expansion in the Ethiopian Higher
Education System. Keynote address to "A
training Conference on Improving Tertiary Education
in Sub-Saharan Africa: Things That Work, September
23-25, 2003, Accra, Ghana.
- Higher Education and Research for Development:
From the Ethiopian Perspective. Keynote
address in the Symposium on Inter-University
cooperation between Mekelle University &
the Flemish Universities/VLIR 20-24, September,
2004, Mekelle, Ethiopia.
- Ethiopian Higher Education: Does it need
transformation to be an active participant in
human development? Paper presented on the
National Conference on "Quality of Higher
Education", IER-AAU, October 15-16, 2004,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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| Massification of Higher Education
and its Implications to Q uality, Equity and Re-engineering
the System in Ethiopia: Lessons from Global Experience
Higher Education is important to produce the
human resource and generate relevant knowledge
and skills that are required for socio-economic
development of a country and to ensure global
competitiveness. Ethiopia's recent experience
in expanding access to higher education and the
efforts being made to transform the sector has
presented unique opportunities and challenges.
The development accomplishments and current and
future challenges of massification of higher education
and research in Ethiopia and globally, vis-à-vis
quality, equity, private provision and re-aligning
for better delivery to national strategic development
goals, would be analyzed. Such a study centering
on focused engagement with professionals from
other parts of the world and critical assessment
of the higher education system in Ethiopia will
result in data and alternative options that inform
policy and decision making at different levels.
The sharing of the unique experience and the collaborative
research with professionals, as well as debates
and dialogues with colleagues from other countries
would contribute to the development of constructive
strategies addressing the challenges of higher
education in the 21st century. The increasingly
complex issues of higher education within the
Ethiopian and global perspectives would be critically
examined during the study. The research undertakings
will have a significant contribution to the development
of my professional and leadership capacity, the
qualitative and quantitative development of the
higher education sector in Ethiopia and in fostering
global partnership and development of collaborative
activities for the future of higher education.
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