Showing posts with label Ethiopia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethiopia. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Arba Minch University


Arba Minch University
Arba Minch University
© Arba Minch University
Established 1986
Type Government
Students more than 20,000
Location Arba Minch, Ethiopia
Campus Urban
Website http://www.amu.edu.et/
Arba Minch University is a research university located in Arba Minch, Ethiopia, about 500 km south of Addis Ababa. Officially inaugurated in 2004, it is one of the top widely recognized universities in Ethiopia. The university's 2004/05 academic year enrollment is over 6,600, placing it among the top largest universities in the country. It is founded on 2 square kilometres of land, at the eastern foot of the Gamo mountains and adjacent to the vast low lying land stretching towards Lake Abaya which is part of the East African Rift valley.

Admas College

 Admas University College
Established     1998
President     Yibrah Girmay
Location     Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Website     http://www.au.edu.et
Admas University College is a higher education institution in Ethiopia. It has been in operation since 1998.

The University College is accredited by Regional Educational Bureaus, Higher Education Relevance and Quality Agency (HERQA) and Federal Ministry of Education Ethiopia and offers both on-campus education and distance learning, in a number of programs, which are offered in number of levels: certificate, diploma and degree.

The University College has also started many e-Learning programs to develop the Ethiopian Higher Educational System. It is currently working in partnership with internationally renowned institutions such as Cisco and University of Lübeck, Germany to reach these goals.

Admas has an autonomous branch in Hargeisa, Somaliland established in 2006, which is called the Admas University College, Hargeisa. This University College in Hargeisa is one of the leading higher education provider in Somaliland.










Addis Ababa University

Addis Ababa University (formerly Haile Selassie I University) is a university in Ethiopia. It was originally named "University College of Addis Ababa" at its founding, then renamed for the former Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I in 1962, receiving its current name in 1975.

Although the university has six of its seven campuses within Addis Ababa (the seventh is located in Debre Zeit, about 45 kilometers away), it also maintains branches in many cities throughout Ethiopia, leading to the claim of being "the largest university in Africa." The government assigns qualified students to these universities upon completion of secondary school. The writer and theorist Richard Cummings served as a member of the Faculty of Law.

Associated institutions include the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, founded by Richard Pankhurst. It is the only non-U.S. member institution associated with the United Negro College Fund.
Addis Ababa University logo.pngHistory
Addis Ababa University.

Addis Ababa University was founded in 1950 at the request of Haile Selassie by a Canadian Jesuit, Dr Lucien Matte, S.J. as a two-year college, and began operations the next year. Over the following two years an affiliation with the University of London was developed.

As part of their sweeping changes, the Derg ordered Addis Ababa University temporarily closed March 4, 1975 and dispatched its 50,000 students to the countryside to help build support for the new regime. Ironically, it was a group of former college students in Tigray Province who founded the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front to resist the Derg government, which later joined a number of other groups to become the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front.

The university offered its first master's programs in 1979 and its first PhD programs in 1987.

Three top university administrators resigned their posts December 2002 in protest against increasing government interference in internal university matters. Government officials wanted the University to change its system of student evaluations to conform to a "gemgema" (self-criticism) system favored by the ruling party.
Notable alumni

    Yohannes Haile-Selassie, paleoanthropologist
    Zeresenay Alemseged, paleoanthropologist
    Mesfin Woldemariam, peace activist
    Birtukan Mideksa, judge and first woman opposition political leader
    Haileluel Nigussie, Veterinarian
    Berhane Asfaw, paleontologist who co-discovered the apparent origin of the Homo genus
    Solomon Weldegirma, organic chemist, instructor, and laboratory coordinator at the       University  of South Florida - Tampa
    Michael Tsegaye, artist and photographer

Adama University

Adama Science and Technology University (formerly known as Nazareth Technical College, Nazareth College of Technical Teachers Education, and Adama University) is a university with branches in Adama city and a branch in Asella, and Debre Zeyit cities, Oromia Region, Ethiopia and also in Addis Ababa (Winget campus).

Overview

Established in September 1993, Adama Science and Technology University was the first institute in Ethiopia to offer degree programs for technical teachers. Formerly it was known as Nazareth Technical College and Nazareth College of Technical Teachers Education. The university adopted the name Adama University on July 9, 2005.