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Ethiopian education plan: Revolutionary move or band-aid?

By Edwin Naidu

Once known for its devastating famine, Ethiopia is bucking the trend in its quest to stamp out cheating during the final examinations for grade 12 pupils.

Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education has launched a new system for one-million learners in grade 12 national high school leaving examination.

But is it a revolutionary move or just a band-aid?

In a break from past practice and one still currently in use throughout the Continent, grade 12 students sitting the 2022 final national examinations in Ethiopia, which began on 10 October, are writing papers at university campuses instead of as per the norm at their schools.

Federal authorities have run the examinations, and the…

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