Secondary Teacher Education in Ethiopia: A New Perspective

Abstract

The 1999/2000 academic year was a cnsls year for the
secondary teacher education institutions in Ethiopia. During
the months of December 1999 and January 2000 chains of
class boycotts took place in Nazareth College of Technical
Teacher Education, Dilla College of Teacher Education and
Health Science, the Education Faculty at Alemaya University
and Bahr Dar College of Pedagogical Sciences. In some of
the colle.ge~ the grievances were so violent that they even
entailed such measures as keeping in campus hostages of
academic and support staff, breaking of windows and other
forms of violence. The demands of the students were two
which could essentially and generally be stated as follows: