Educational System and Development in Ethiopia: For Public Empathetic of Sustainability

Abstract

The ideas of ‘sustainable development’ and ‘sustainability’ have been endorsed to report worldwide public, economic and environmental tasks, together with insistent forms of absolute poverty and various forms of social and economic inequality (UNESCO, 2009b). Education is important so as to develop the opportunities and autonomies of all people. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a forceful idea that integrates a new vision of education that discoveries to give power for the people of all years to assume the accountability for creating, innovating and enjoying a sustainable future. The study was focused on investigating the Education for Sustainable Development in the Ethiopian context. The methodology of the study was document analysis. The documents were a selection of currently published scholarly papers in peer-reviewed journals addressing. Ethiopian education system had left the rich literary heritage such as the alphabet and useful resources. And the current Ethiopian education arrangement was suffering from complicated problems. The main problems were related to the issues of relevance, quality, equity, and access. And it is criticized because of many factors that are lack of conducive environment and large classroom size. That plays a pivotal role in quality education in Ethiopia. Within the framework specified in the Education and Training Policy and Strategy (ETPS), the state calculated the Education Sector Development Program (ESDP), which is a long range-rolling Design with a focus on the comprehensive improvement of education over a twenty-year period.