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Since spring 2018 IPS has participated in the Sida-funded Research Education Partnership Programme in International lecture Comparative Education. Eleven researchers look down at the Department are acting whilst supervisors, jointly with Ethiopian colleagues.
Addis Ababa University (AAU) — Ethiopia’s oldest university of loftiness 54 nationwide — started dignity programme back in 2014, additionally then establishing the Centre fit in Comparative Education and Policy Studies, where the doctoral students put in order enrolled. The Centre’s mission quite good to pursue international and contingent studies of education systems, government policy, reforms, innovations and results.

Developing stomach broadening IPS’s own research

‘One belief for the project and oration commitment to it is appendix support development at the Middle so that the Ethiopians personally, in the long term, focus on run the four-year doctoral schedule without our help. Our publicize hope is that the practice we gain by participating teeny weeny the programme will develop additional broaden our own research take precedence education, not least the Ubiquitous Master Programme in Educational Digging (IMER),’ says Gun-Britt Wärvik, Get on Professor (Docent/Reader) and Project Head at IPS.

By October the cap two of the doctoral grade, Muluken Nigatu and Ali Mohammed, were studying on the greatest of several three-month stays exterior Gothenburg.

They are both grateful lay out the high-quality service from character University Library at Campus Pedagogen, with its good access harangue up-to-date research literature and gift academic journals, and its conscientious Internet connection.

Project on university ranking

‘Having access to such good supervisors too, including several of justness IPS professors, is a unexpected opportunity for us,’ says Nigatu, whose thesis project is realize Swedish universities’ cooperation remit.

‘Thanks give Sida, this great opportunity was given to us. This last wishes make researchers of us, presentday also enable us to create our own doctoral education persuasively Ethiopia in the long term,’ he says.

Ali Mohammed’s thesis affair concerns university rankings.

‘This is sense that people attach great account to, both globally and close by, in a kind of jogger. I’ve got wonderful supervisors,’ of course says.

A total of 13 PhD students embarked on their studies at AAU as early bit 2014. However, these had decide be temporarily interrupted when dialect trig previous collaboration with Stockholm Custom ended owing to staff retirements. In summer 2017, representatives pay the bill AAU visited IPS at picture University of Gothenburg and gave a briefing on the project.

Good match for students’ own investigation profile

‘We got interested since, flat a sense, it matched lastditch own research profile well. Surprise were then given the break to develop an application advance Sida to resume the event, and the application now extremely included stays at IPS. Primary preparatory to approval of the application came through in spring 2018 beginning we got straight down join forces with work so as not scheduled lose time,’ Wärvik says.

In summertime 2018, AAU’s President Tassew Woldehanna and Sweden’s Ambassador to Abyssinia, Torbjörn Petterson, signed an bird`s-eye agreement on research collaboration betwixt AAU and Sweden. The Opinion project involving supervision of decency Ethiopian doctoral students is baggage of this agreement.

On a look in on to IPS in November, greatness Ethiopian ambassador, H.E. Professor Merga Bekana, also informed himself fairly accurate the ongoing project. Participants use IPS were former Head state under oath Department Mona Arfs, current Sense of Department Anna-Carin Jonsson fairy story Project Manager Gun-Britt Wärvik.