Deliverology in Ethiopian Higher Education as a Quality Management Tool: Critical Review and the Insider’s Reflection

Teklu Tafase Olkaba,Ewnetu Hailu Tamene

doi:10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.7n.4p.83

Teklu Tafase Olkaba, Ewnetu Hailu Tamene

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https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.7n.4p.83

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Abstract

The concept of deliverology as a systematic process for driving progress and delivering results in government and the public sector, was endorsed in Ethiopia in 2017 for the purpose of quality management in Ethiopian public universities. The impetus of this reflective review article is to examine the essence of deliverology as a quality management tool in Ethiopian higher learning institutions as a response to graduate unemployment. In Ethiopia, different reform strategies were endorsed in higher learning institutions such as: program diversification, modularization governance reform strategies and currently deliverology as a quality management tool. This paper critically reviewed the Ethiopian higher learning institutions experiences and the essence of deliverology from its inceptions to the current implementation in Ethiopian public universities. The findings portray that deliverology as strategy for quality management is not conceived in Ethiopian higher education community at large and reality on the ground is different from the literature developed on the science of deliverology.

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Literary, deliverology is the new concept endorsed in Ethiopian higher learning institutions in the last three years while in western world in UK, is about two decades old
This paper critically reviewed the Ethiopian higher learning institutions experiences and the essence of deliverology from its inceptions to the current implementation in Ethiopian public universities
This section portrays the essence of deliverology from its conceptual inception to practical implementaion discourses, scenarios and its current status in Ethiopian public universities as a guarantee for quality management tool

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Deliverology is the new concept endorsed in Ethiopian higher learning institutions in the last three years while in western world in UK, is about two decades old. The massification of university enrollments in science, engineering and technology is the result of the new strategic approach of the government of Ethiopia (MOE, 2017) In this context, the government of Ethiopia is focusing on helping its tertiary education institutions to become more innovative and responsive to the requirements of a globally competitive knowledge economy. The policy envisaged a higher education expansion policy that was realised in the last two decades especially from the year 2000 to 2019 This resulted the increase of the number of Ethiopian public higher education institutions from two to forty five universities with different policy reforms, such as the graduate mix and policy and programme diversification in line with the country’s development policy (MOE, 2017)

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