Quality of Higher Education in Public Institutions

Abstract

The transition of higher education, like Ethiopia itself, has gone through three major changes since
the early 50s: the first is the phase of an elite education system where quality over numbers was the
guiding norm under the traditional monarchy. The second phase was when the country fell under
the military rule where shallow ideological control penetrated also the educational system. The third
phase is the ethnic federal arrangement where the country seems to be facing a ‘dramatic expansion
of higher education’ with all the problems that this has brought to the decline in maintaining high
level quality in the curriculum, the graduates and the overall educational standard.