The Education Bureau of Amhara region requests the Ministry of Education an extension of time to report to Universities to be extended until the grading problem is resolved
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The radical ethnic nationalist ideology has been taking the lives of innocent civilians in many parts of Ethiopia – mostly in the Oromo and Benishangul Gumuz regions.
There had been a claim that those who carry out the massacres are linked to authorities at the regional and federal levels.
And it seems the radicalism is manifesting itself in a different form at a systemic level in the federal government and the victims are innocents.
The results of the Grade 12 leaving examination in the Amhara region are said to be unprecedented in the number of failures. While many students from the region have filed complaints demanding exams to be regraded, there appear to be a view that suggests that there was manipulation at the agency level with the intention to harm students from the Amhara region.
The view invites a serious investigation. But the National Education Assessment and Examinations Agency seems to have an interest in making it a little murky.
The agency already admitted, last week, that there were over 20,000 complaints regarding the exam result but the exam results that were found to be problematic are about 600.
For students in the Amhara region and the education office, there is more to it.
The Amhara Region Education Bureau has already requested the Ministry of Education to delay the date for students to report to institutions of higher learning to which they are assigned.
Other institutions in the region are speaking out strongly against what they believe is a repeated mistake.
“Grade 12 exam results for the Amhara region are problematic. It has to be graded again or students made to write another exam,” DW Amharic cited Dr. Asmare Dejen, who is secretary of the forum for higher institutions in the region, as saying.
He also recommended that the national agency is making repeated mistakes and has to be investigated.
Amanuel Tsehay was one of the students from the region whose grade plummeted, not because of his competence but because of the mistake in the national agency.
When his exams papers were reviewed, he turned out to be the number one student in the entire country with the highest grades. His 647 score (out of 700) was reduced to 162 because of the agency.
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