Last Change:
02/15/2024
Education Sector Development Plan (ESDP VI, 2020 – 2025)
Year: 2021
Type: Domestic policy
Rights Category: Education
Description
The Education Sector Development Programme VI (ESDP VI) will be the sixth medium-term plan which serves as the central strategy document for educational development in Ethiopia from 2020/21 to 2024/25. Ministry of Education of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has been conducting Education Sector Development Plan (ESDP) for the last twenty-five years. The current Education Sector Development Plan, ESDP-6, is designed to strongly address the gaps of the previous EDSPs. Additionally Hallmarks of ESDP-6 are the new and revised curricula after more than two and half decades, use of digital technology for quality improvement, new thoughts in to the non-Formal and Adult Education, introduction of skills training at Grade-11 and Grade-12 so that hundreds of thousands of students completing secondary education system become junior professionals in their areas of Training. This, in particular, is aimed to enabling the General Education to produce skilled labor for the job market without requiring college level education for those that might not have the chance to join Tertiary Education.
Selected provisions
Strategy: Expand basic education for refugees and displaced populations,
Strategy: Expand basic education for refugees and displaced populations,
Strategy: Expand basic education for refugees and displaced populations
Develop mechanisms and strategy to address the educational needs of refugees., Provide in-service training for teachers in refugee camps, provide school-based infrastructure and teaching and learning materials in refugee camps and host communities.
Develop a strategy for incorporating refugees into the secondary education system; Provide in-service training for teachers in refugee camps; Invest in school infrastructure and teaching and learning materials in refugee camps and host communities.
Develop a strategy for incorporating refugees into the secondary education system; Provide in-service training for teachers in refugee camps; Invest in school infrastructure and teaching and learning materials in refugee camps and host communities.
Strategy: Ensure free and accessible secondary education for all children.
Value: National Unity in Diversity, Goal “To develop ethical, civic and moral values in learners throughout the education and training system in order to prepare them to live in harmony and work for the unity of the country, appreciating shared values, diversity, inter culturally, brotherhood, peace and inclusion”. ESDP VI,
“…schools need to be safe environments to learning and to strengthen students’ positive values to foster inclusion and representation and to embrace pluralism, appreciating the similarities and differences between ethnicities, religions, and cultures.”
This program includes key strategies and activities to ensure equitable and quality education for all, with particular attention to disadvantaged groups, namely girls, students with special needs, IDPs and refugee children, pastoralists’ children, and out-of-school students.