The Federal Technical Vocational Education and Training Institute (TVET) has been promoted to the Ethiopian Technical University by science and higher education ministry.
ADDIS ABABA (EPA) – The FDRE’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MoSHE) has accentuated that Ethiopia has to have more technical universities in ten-year time to qualitatively and quantitatively produce skilled human power thereby coming up with making the manufacturing sector much more prolific.
Graduating students of the Federal Technical Vocational Education and Training Institute (TVET), Samuel Urkato (PhD), Science and Higher Education’s Minister, recently said promoting the TVET to Ethiopian Technical University (ETU) is of paramount importance in boosting the manufacturing sector of the country.
To make this real, graduates have to actively play their role and practically apply what they have acquired in the specialized discipline they had been trained.
Laying the cornerstone exhibiting the promotion of TVET to the Ethiopian Technical University, the Minister heralded that the scaling up of TVET would play a significant role in fostering the socio-economic development and making the technical university a center of excellence in the Horn region of Africa.
Dr. Samuel also called on graduates and their instructors to promote love, unity, peace, development and fraternity giving the sentiment of prejudice, hatred and disintegration deaf ears and blind eyes. He also alarmed the graduates that their profession is an engine that determines the country’s development and pushes it to the next level of success.
TVET has graduated over 2,500 trainees in various vocational fields in Addis Ababa and other cities/towns of the country.
According to institute’s Director General, Ato Teshale Berecha Yadessa, the institute has been providing thousands of students with the required training to help them contribute their remarkable share to the overall development of their country.
The institute, together with instructors and trainees, has developed some 60 technology projects and done some 16 problem solving research this year, the Director General added.
Regarding the evolution of the former TVET to the new Ethiopian Technical University, the institute has released the following statement.
Rebranding the Institute
All the necessary information to and from the University are to be in the new controlled format, the University management decided.
Letters, presentations, and all other printed and soft copy documents have to be in the new name, Ethiopian Technical University (ETU), it is told.
Different committees are being formed to rebrand and expand the university up to its need. Selected academic and administrative staffs are being involved to make the university competent enough inside and outside Ethiopia.
Committee members are working to bring better qualified education and training, problem solving technology and research works, better TVET managers and leaders, and better services in all other centers from the University.
All staff in Ethiopian Technical University is obliged to use its new name and controlled formats here and there.
Sources: Ethiopian Press Agency and the University’s Facebook Page