Abere,
You're putting some substance to the front of this issue. The point you raised has significant consequence if too many people are out of school and unemployed. Those with lack of insight for the future and wellbeing of the country and its population are celebrating the exclusion of the 800,000 students from the education system after this exam. Removing 800,000 students is their greatest achievement they expect from Birr Amitu Sainega.
It is obvious that not everyone is a university material. But there is no way to judge ethiopian students in the absence of proper and effective education system. As usual the students from private schools of the richest will pass this exam with flying colors and occupy the scarce spots in the universities while the poor and the not privilged will continue to be hopeless and desperate and eventually join the resistance to either unseat this government or breakup the country. The easiest way to self enrichment is not through education but armed violence in that part of the continent anyways.
Speaking of the 12k students who were barred from the exams would definitely be in the 800,000 group to be removed anyways, so nothing to loose for them. They couldn't compete with those from Addis Ababa private school students. Whether in the Amhara region or Oromia, schools were almost nonexistent for the last two years due to the ongoing civil war and violence in every corner of the country. Students are not made ready for yhis exam.
In any case though, this exam is rigged already. What happens if 500,000 students score 90% on the exam, the government already said there is only space for 200,000? So the 300k of them will be dropped.
The government should prepare students to pass exam not fail and hide its own failure of providing education to all.
And the wutaf nekais should stop cheerleading officials just because he/she is one of your ethnic person.
Abere wrote: ↑13 Oct 2022, 12:56
_____Why the students excused themselves from the examination halls? Was it premediated? What do independent media covered about this incidence? What effect will this have on others who remain seated to take the exam? Was the government expecting this before hand? If so, would not be better mechanism in place to thwart this?
____Overall, education being in the line of the crossfire is very unacceptable. These thousands of teenagers, if remained out of school for the next year(s) will certainly create more problem and headache to the country and the stability of the government. In my opinion they are an assignment to the country as they to themselves. Twelve thousand students means student population of many high schools, not a small matter. Imagine a single Woreda with a single high school - that Woreda got a good dose of headache for the year ahead. I do not have more idea about the exam process put in place now, I wish it were politics neutral. But it smells like that now.