Quality knows no boundary indeed as everything is highly preferable whenever it has comprised the best excellence, if not the relative virtuous aspect. Informed decision can be made; responsible, competent and patriotic generation can be produced through reliable machinery--quality schooling.
When it comes to education, its value has exceeded in manifold since such an audacious facet helps produce a generation that can confidently take over the country with its future and all rounded wealth. Education, with a particular reference to quality one, has been laying a solid foundation for healthy human development since long back. Ethiopia has been attaining impressive and rapid primary enrolment increase upon the stringent focus the government and policymakers have given to the sector. The country has capitalized on quality improvements through the Education Sector Development Plan and the General Education Quality Improvement Program.
As Ethiopia has recently experienced massive improvement in access to education especially at primary level, quality has now attracted due attention because the next scheme targets at ensuring quality and the required standard. In clear terms, extraordinary achievements, in terms of increasing enrolment and access at all levels, has been recorded. The next emphasis lies on quality phases. However, education quality still remains a daunting challenge across the nation. To address the challenges in educational quality, the government has recently devised many reliable solutions and working on it. Though increased access to education and school enrolment creates opportunity to all, accessing quality education has remained a significant problem in the nation.
Education quality is shaped by the firm linkages between/among the government, line ministries, universities and colleges, senior secondary schools, schools at all levels in general, and the general society as the combined effort of all matters the most and renders good quality education to all.
Education is a compulsory human need and a key factor for the development of a nation although the concept of quality in educational institutions is highly complex, difficult to define, and multi-dimensional. True, quality can be described as a system that constitutes the input, process, and output of the educational system, and it refers to the educational model, the institutional mission, and its goals, as well as to the specific standards of the system.
Deploying well experienced and trained teachers can absolutely contribute towards enhancing and ensuring education quality and it will serve as a springboard for further improvement. Quality education has a direct bearing to quality of input, process, and output aspects thereby producing quality generation in all aspects.
Ethiopia is now working to help its educational institutions offer quality education for all as its pedagogy has focused on theoretical and practical aspects, and the country has to work to make itself continentally as well as globally competent. Of course, it is endeavoring to well improve its education system at all levels.
The education system in Ethiopia has to focus more on the practical side of knowledge, making students more competent to get create or get good jobs as per their preference. When its education system is valued well, the generation in the nation produced using such viable channel would be productive, ethical, and responsible, among others.
As Ethiopia is now home to over 120 million population, its desire for quality education is equaled by none. If the country firmly capitalizes on quality education, the top-class secondary schools, colleges and universities, qualified faculty, quality of living, and job opportunities will undoubtedly be the uppermost reasons to choose this great country--Ethiopia. However, it is left with a long journey to seize such a precious level peculiarly when it comes to education quality.
As access to safe, inclusive, quality education is a basic human right and an essential pillar of ending poverty, investing in quality education is an incomparable option and critical for developing the human capital that will end all perplexities with which Ethiopia has been challenged.
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The Ethiopian government has invested millions of dollars in both access to education and its quality and working hard to come up with proven and measurable impact. Undeniably, education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is why countries like ours are expected to be interested in shaping the generation in tune with their desire for real change.
All in all, quality education promotes the well-being of citizens. Yes, access to quality education enables children to develop and flourish, and educated generations have more confidence in themselves and their abilities to wholeheartedly render service to fellow citizens. Ensuring inclusive and quality education for all has promoted lifelong learning. The government and professionals have to strive to provide all citizens at all levels with quality education coupled with the necessary skills.
