Students become eligible for higher education only if they pass a national exam that is administered when students complete grade 10 (end of First Cycle Secondary). Those who successfully pass a grade 10 national exam undergo a two-year preparatory course (Second Cycle Secondary) and once again ...
The introduction of English in grade 3 was recommended to accommodate children unfamiliar with Amharic, leading to a new English curriculum for secondary education in the academic year 1963/1964 (Tamene 2000). The political upheavals in the later years of Haile Selassie’s rule and the emergence...