Quality Assurance in Ethiopian Higher Education: Procedures and Practices

AbstractThis paper discusses current trends of quality assurance procedures and practices in Ethiopian higher education. The result revealed that “accreditation of program and institution”, and “institutional audit” are the emerging principal types of quality assurance in Ethiopia. There is a tendency towards “accreditation of program and institution” in the private and “institutional audit” in both public and private higher education institutions (HEIs). There is also a tendency of implementing “quality control” in private and “quality improvement” in public HEIs. Public HEIs did not implement recommendations forwarded in audit reports, and no follow-up action was taken by the quality assurance agency