Reference : BC/00159
The British Council Ethiopia was recently awarded a contract by the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Education to manage a partnership programme between Ethiopian and international universities for the development of home grown postgraduate programmes in engineering and technology.
The overall purpose of the programme is to improve the quality and relevance of postgraduate teaching in a number of engineering and technology disciplines enabling Ethiopia to produce its own engineers on a sustainable basis. The objectives are to establish postgraduate programmes at Masters and PhD levels in a number of engineering and technology areas at selected 10 Institute of Technologies (IoTs) and 2 Science and Technology Universities (STUs). An additional objective is to develop a highly skilled cadre of qualified academics to spearhead the development of quality teaching of postgraduate engineering and technology programmes. This will be achieved through partnerships between Ethiopian IoTs / STUs and international universities who have expertise in the appropriate engineering and technology disciplines.
The British Council seeks to recruit up to 3 international universities to partner with 3 Ethiopian IoTs / STUs clusters. International universities, including university consortiums, providing they have the expertise required for the assignment are invited to bid for any or all of the 3 opportunities. This Invitation to Tender (ITT) is therefore issued to international universities who would like to implement this ambitious plan to expand and improve Ethiopia's provision of engineering education. The programme envisages the development of new postgraduate study programmes in selected Engineering disciplines with the help of international university partnerships with Ethiopian Institute of Technologies (IoTs) and Science and Technology (STUs).
The ITT which is divided up in 3 Lots will each focus on distinct engineering and technology disciplines. Lot 1 will focus on building capacity of Ethiopian IoTs / STUs on Mechanical and Chemical Engineering. Lot 2 will focus on Electrical and Communication Engineering. Finally Lot 3 will be focusing on Civil Engineering and Construction. The contract duration is 24 months and expected to start in July 2015.
Contact : Adenew Mesfin
Date documents can be requested until : 14 May 2015
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EiABC, as an autonomous Institute of Technology under Addis Ababa University, would like to highly encourage our International University partners to participate in the partnership program.
If interested, please apply for cluster 3, with Jimma Institute of Technology (JiT) as the University Cluster lead, and the three cluster members Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EiABC), Dire Dawa Institute of Technology (DDIT), and Arbaminch Institute of Technology (AMIT).