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Two Indian publishers have beaten off stiff international competition to win Ethiopian government contracts worth $5.9 million to print and distribute textbooks on six subjects, as also teachers' guides, a trend that has been consistent over the past three years.

A new non profit university college opens having 5 faculties in business and computer science at Lebu, Addis Ababa in August 2011 with over 90 million birr capital. Even though the construction process was slow and late for over a year because of lack of construction materials, the university college is now completed by Jing Su International Construction Company after four years on a 50,000 square meters of land leased from Addis Ababa City Government.

African Union and Global Advocacy for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) signed here on Wednesday an agreement aimed at making laptops accessible to students of primary schools in Ethiopia.

The Australian government on Thursday announced the award of 1000 scholarships for African students as from 2013.

The Embassy of the United States of America and the Institute of International Education-Ethiopia, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, sponsored a two-day conference, "Building Sustainable U.S.-Ethiopian University Partnerships," for Ethiopian and American higher education officials. The conference entertained representation from Ethiopia’s 22 public universities, and several private institutions, as well as Ministry of Education officials.

Ethiopia's Federal Ministry of Education has lifted its ban on distance education, after a one-and-half month long negotiation with private institutions ended last week in agreement. At the end of the last academic year, the Ministry scrapped all distance education programs of both private and public institutions in the country due to quality concerns.

The Addis Ababa University (AAU) is under strong criticism as it is said to reserve many of its postgraduate positions for teachers and representatives of government and public institutions. The university, however, refutes the complaint by saying it is giving chances to whoever is qualified, meets the standards set and passes the exams given by every graduate school of the institution.