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: Ensure that primary education is free, compulsory, and accessible to all children,