The Adi Keih College currently under construction is to essentially become
another military camp under the guise of an educational institution. Its
counterpart at Mai Nefhi which was built and made functional after the
closure of the Asmara University is presided by a military colonel with a
six grade education - a poor educational role model. At Mai Nefhi, student
conduct is guided by military discipline instead of academics.
The Adi Keih project is being built by unpaid or underpaid young Eritreans
who did not score passing grades to go to college. Only a handful of 12th
graders in the impoverished and oppressed nation make it to college.
These scattered substandard educational institutions are built with the aim
of isolating and controling the student population. The regime is adamant
to prevent a repeat of the 2002 student protests calling for constitutional
governance and academic and press freedoms.
The Eritrean government demonstrated that it was not serious about progress
of higher education when it closed the Asmara University, the only
instituion of higher learning in the nation.
A second institution of higher education in Asmara could have been cheaply
established in the center of Asmara by turning into a university the former
residential grand palace of Emperor Haile Selassie/Ras Asrate Kassa now
selfishly and unnecessarily occupied by the Eritrean strongman, Issyas
Afewerki.
The Adi Keih College currently under construction is to essentially become another military camp under the guise of an educational institution. Its counterpart at Mai Nefhi which was built and made functional after the closure of the Asmara University is presided by a military colonel with a six grade education - a poor educational role model. At Mai Nefhi, student conduct is guided by military discipline instead of academics.
The Adi Keih project is being built by unpaid or underpaid young Eritreans who did not score passing grades to go to college. Only a handful of 12th graders in the impoverished and oppressed nation make it to college.
These scattered substandard educational institutions are built with the aim of isolating and controling the student population. The regime is adamant to prevent a repeat of the 2002 student protests calling for constitutional governance and academic and press freedoms.
The Eritrean government demonstrated that it was not serious about progress of higher education when it closed the Asmara University, the only instituion of higher learning in the nation.
A second institution of higher education in Asmara could have been cheaply established in the center of Asmara by turning into a university the former residential grand palace of Emperor Haile Selassie/Ras Asrate Kassa now selfishly and unnecessarily occupied by the Eritrean strongman, Issyas Afewerki.