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Tamrat, Wondwosen; Teferra, Damtew – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2022
Ethiopia boasts more than a million students in its burgeoning higher education sector which has witnessed phenomenal growth over the last two decades. In this context, transnational higher education (TNHE) has been widely touted as a viable means of addressing human resource capacity building needs and quality educational provisions. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Trends, Enrollment Trends
Tamrat, Wondwosen – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to assess the extent to which sustainable development practices are prevalent at the College of Open and Distance Learning (CODL), St. Mary's University, Ethiopia. The assessment focused on identifying the college's inclusion of the sustainable development agenda in its policy statements, various functions and practices.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Sustainable Development, Open Education
Tamrat, Wondwosen – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2023
The employment of graduates has become an important issue of policy direction and institutional consideration across the globe. Given this new development, this qualitative study explored the nature of graduate employment in Ethiopia by examining the profile of the labour market, employability patterns, policies, strategies and initiatives taken…
Descriptors: Employment, Graduates, Foreign Countries, Employment Potential
Tamrat, Wondwosen – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2022
This study explored, through a quantitative case study approach, the views of academics toward the importance and components of an internal quality assurance system of St Mary's University in Ethiopia. The findings revealed that while academics value positively the importance of an internal quality assurance system in general and institutional…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Quality, College Faculty, College Students
Tamrat, Wondwosen; Teferra, Damtew – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Private higher education institutions operate amidst a litany of risks that can affect their operations and threaten their existence. This study was conducted to identify and analyze the nature and types of risks faced by Ethiopian private higher education institutions through the perspectives of their own academics. The findings revealed that the…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Risk, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Tamrat, Wondwosen – Quality in Higher Education, 2019
The Higher Education Relevance and Quality Agency (HERQA) was established in Ethiopia to spearhead efforts in the assurance of quality at a national level. This study examined the views of private providers about the operational features and practices of HERQA. Findings revealed that despite its significant contributions in formalising and…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Quality Assurance, Private Colleges, Foreign Countries
Tamrat, Wondwosen – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This study was conducted to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the private higher education (PHE) sector in Ethiopia. The study employed a mixed-methods design and used diary and survey questionnaires as key data generation tools. The results of the study revealed that the pandemic has severely affected the academic and business operations of PHE…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Private Colleges
Tamrat, Wondwosen; Fetene, Getnet Tizazu – Higher Education Quarterly, 2021
Over the last few decades, the active promotion of or government acquiescence in a surge of private higher education (PHE) has become a common phenomenon globally. This study examines the specific contributions and pitfalls of private higher education institutions (PHEIs) using questionnaires, interviews and documentary analysis as data gathering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Education, Higher Education, Educational Benefits
Tamrat, Wondwosen – Higher Education Quarterly, 2020
This study was conducted to explore the level, type and quality of student participation in the governance milieu of twenty public universities in Ethiopia based on secondary data availed at a national level. The findings reveal that despite their demands and aspirations, students' participation in university governance is still at its lowest ebb…
Descriptors: Governance, Student Participation, State Universities, Participative Decision Making
Tamrat, Wondwosen; Fetene, Getnet Tizazu – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
This study explores doctoral students' views about the support schemes and resources deployed to run PhD programs at one public university in Ethiopia. The research used questionnaire, interview and documentary evidence as principal data collection tools and involved 164 doctoral students at four purposely selected colleges of the university. The…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes, Writing for Publication
Tamrat, Wondwosen – Journal of Education Policy, 2022
This study was conducted to examine the practices, challenges, and prospects of using accreditation, external quality audit, and internal quality assurance as major components of the quality assurance (QA) regime in the Ethiopian higher education sector. The research used documentary evidence and interview as principal means of investigation. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
Tamrat, Wondwosen – Higher Education Policy, 2021
This study examines the legislative framework of the Ethiopian higher education sector in light of the corresponding roles and expectations it assigns to and the distinctions it draws between public and private institutions of higher learning. The findings reveal that public and private institutions are equally expected to deliver similar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Public Colleges, Higher Education
Tamrat, Wondwosen; Teferra, Damtew – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2018
The changing landscape of higher education over the past few decades has increasingly brought internationalization to the fore as one major manifestation of the educational systems of both developed and developing countries alike. As part of this global trend, the Ethiopian higher education sector has, in the past decade, begun to exhibit some of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Higher Education, Educational Practices
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Bloor, Thomas; Tamrat, Wondwosen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Addresses the issue of language planning in pluralist Ethiopia. Offers an evaluative appraisal of the new policy that considers a number of obstacles to implementation of the policy and questions the move towards the preference of the roman alphabet to the Ethiopic syllabic writing system. (33 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Amharic, Arabic, Cultural Pluralism, English (Second Language)