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University to launch new post graduate programs
Hawassa, Ethiopia (ENA) – Hawassa University in South Ethiopia Peoples’ State said preparations are underway to launch new post graduate programs in the coming academic year.
Speaking at a relevant forum on Saturday, Social Science and Humanities College Dean with the University, Dr. Negussie Meshesha said the new programs will be in journalism and mass communication, social psychology,...
LG Electronics to Open Technical College
 New training program to focus on establishing practical links.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -Â LG Electronics is opening a million dollar Technical & Vocational Education & Training (TVET) College in September 2013.
The college will offer courses in Information Technology (IT); electronics; and television and cell phone maintenance. According to Yong Geun Choi, representative for LG’s Ethiopia...
Bahir Dar University to Link all Campuses Online for 98 million Birr
The new technology will enables students to access resources, schedules, grades.
Bahir Dar University launched a 30 million Br Information Technology infrastructure development on Friday, March 29, 2013, for its new Yibab and Zenzelima campuses.
The projects for each campus were, a month ago, awarded to Neuro Net Plc and Symbol Technology Plc, respectively, each for 15 million Br.
The Yibab campus,...
MTN to launch young women innovative award program
Happy-Girl Buthelezi (Photo: ethiopianreporter.com)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - The renowned African mobile services operator, MTN Ethiopia, will launch prize awarding programs in partnership with Addis Ababa University (AAU) to promote and encourage young women’s inventions and business ideas.
Happy-Girl Buthelezi, MTN country manager for Ethiopia, told The Reporter that in most scenarios, young girls...
GFC Grant Approved and Ambassadors’ wives support Fregenet School
Fregenet School
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Global Fund for Children (GFC) has once again supported Fregenet School in Addis Ababa, with a grant of $7,000.00 (seven thousand USD) to support the School’s feeding program.
This is the third year that Fregenet School has coordinated with GFC to insure that Ethiopian school children are fed not only in knowledge and spirit but in body as well. Â Last...
Ethiopia, Japan sign $17.3 million grant agreements
Addis Ababa , Ethiopia – Ethiopia and Japan here on Wednesday signed two grant agreements amounting to a total of 17.3 million US dollars for construction of educational facilities and detail design for rehabilitation of Lumame-Debremarkos road.
Some 16.4 million US dollars of the sated amount will be utilized for construction of primary and secondary schools in South Ethiopia Peoples’...
U.S. Provides 5.5 Million English Language Textbooks for Elementary School Children in Ethiopia
Press Release
Pictured here are three of the 5.5 million English language textbooks, developed and published with USAID assistance, for students in grades 2, 3 and 4 in more than 28,000 Ethiopian schools nationwide. (photo: Robert Sauers/USAID
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - USAID Ethiopia Mission Director Dennis Weller presented to Ethiopia’s State Minister of Education Ato Fuad Ibrahim 5.5 million English...
Hawassa University opens new campus
Hawassa, Ethiopia – A new campus constructed by Hawassa University in Yirgalem Town of South Ethiopia Peoples’ State with 55 million Birr was inaugurated on Sunday.
University President Dr. Yoseph Mammo said on the occasion that the new campus called Awada Campus is part of the expansion work to increase enrollment capacity of the university. Dr. Yoseph said the campus constructed on...
High Hopes: A lifelong fascination with aerospace
Samuel Yossef, 38
City: Everett
Program: Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University (Everett)
Q: How did you come to enroll in this program?
A:Â I’m originally from Ethiopia: I moved from Seattle to Everett to work as an electrician for Boeing. Boeing had a great program that would pay for my education while working. I discovered it would take two years longer, balancing work and...
AAU confers professorship on Dr. Atalay Alem
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Addis Ababa University (AAU) has conferred professorship on the second psychiatrist in the institution’s history. Atalay Alem (Ph.D.) is a noted scholar and researcher in the field of psychiatry at the university. The first professorship was given to another veteran psychiatrist Mesfin Araya (Ph.D.), who, according to records, made great contribution to the first Psychiatric...
