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News: Huawei, AAU launch the first Huawei ICT Practice Center in Ethiopia addisstandard 2021-06-01
During the ceremony, Huawei also handed over 30,000 USD scholarship fund to Addis Abeba University for 10 postgraduate students annually within 3 years.
Addis Abeba, June 1, 2021 – Huawei together with Addis Abeba University (AAAU) today officially launched Huawei-AAU ICT Practice Center in Addis Abeba Institute of Technology.
The project is realized by Huawei with the aim of delivering hands-on practical experience for students and professionals. The target of the center is to train more than 2000 engineers including students and teachers to boost talent ecosystem of Ethiopia in the coming three years.
Analysis: Students, Families opt to enroll in private universities due to security concerns; Ministry hints public universities will be ready in two weeks
By Etenesh Abera
Addis Abeba, April 27, 2021 – According to the Ministry of Education (MoE), more than 358,000 students took the national university entrance exam to pursue higher education in the upcoming academic year 2020/21 (2013 E.C.). In Addis Abeba alone more than 23,560 have taken the exam. The Ministry of Science and Higher education (MoSHE) announced that 147,640 students will be expected to join 47 government universities.
From the data
Addis Standard obtained from MoSHE website for the current academic year, students will be distributed to all five different universities registered under MoSHE: research, applied science, general, science and technology and technical universities and according to MoSHE ready to accept students. .
Media colleagues at the elections reporting workshop launch
Addis Abeba, February 9/2021 – On February 8, 2021, the U.S. Embassy in Addis Abeba launched the first of 25 week-long media trainings throughout Ethiopia to train approximately 500-700 journalists across the country to empower and educate journalists on their roles and responsibilities on election coverage.
The media training includes educating voters on diverse issues, and monitoring and reporting on electoral activities to increase the transparency and accountability of all parties involved.
At the launch of the training, Amanda Jacobsen, Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Addis Abeba, underscored to journalists, “Your role as media professionals is critical in both uncovering and addressing the needs and challenges of citizens, as well as questioning sources, diversifying the types of people you interview, and countering mis- and disinformation as part of your daily responsibilities.”
By Dagnachew B. Wakene
Addis Abeba, January 29/2021 – A number of Ethiopian news outlets have covered the outrageous incident which occurred last month within the premises of the Addis Abeba University (AAU) involving a graduating class law student with visual impairment, Abraham Duressa, who died by suicide. The purpose of this piece is not to provide thorough details of what transpired on that fateful day of 24
th December 2020. Eyewitness accounts and the relevant authorities have already established some essential facts of the tragic incident. The news also caught the attention of the nation’s House of People’s Representatives (HoPR) that ordered all implicated parties, notably the Ethiopian National Educational Assessment and Examination Agency (NEAEA) and, to an extent, the AAU itself, to investigate and hold those responsible to account. The question as to who is/are directly, indirectly, jointly or severally responsible for the appalling, unlawful denial of the decea