College of Education, Addis Ababa University

Addis Ababa University (AAU) is the too oldest and the leading university in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is one of the world's great crossroads, where the peoples and cultures of Africa, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean have been interacting for thousands of years. The resulting ethnic and cultural diversity has given rise to many unique and dynamic visual traditions. The cumulative of which resulted in considering the country as a cultural mosaic with 80 different languages and dialects spoken. Whereas traditional education dates back to the 4th century B.C, modern higher education began in Ethiopia with the founding of the University College of Addis Ababa (UCAA) in 1950. Then the University College was renamed by the former Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I in 1962, and received its current name, Addis Ababa University (AAU), in 1975.This makes AAU one of the oldest, modern African Universities. The University has eight of its ten campuses within Addis Ababa (one located in Debre Zeit, about 45 kilometers away another one at Kaliti Campus), leading to the claim of being "The Largest University in Africa".

The College of Education of AAU is indeed the oldest of all the education faculties in the country. It is located at the Main Campus of the University. The overall mission of the College of Education is to foster teaching, research, testing, training and consultancy services in education and related fields. Currently the College has 15 departments: Educational Planning and Management, Curriculum and Teachers Professional Development Studies, Business Education, Geography and Environmental Education, Ethiopian Languages and Literature Education, Mathematics Education, Physics Education, Physical Education and Sports, Psychology, Special Needs Education, Biology Education, Chemistry Education, English Language Education, History Education, and ICT Education). Almost all the departments offer undergraduate degree programmes and graduate MA/MSc/M.Ed programmes and some seven run PhD programmes. The College also publishes a bi-annual journal, Journal of Education for Development. The College has now 224 academic and 94 administrative staff including contract employees.

Currently there are 4,274 and 2801 undergraduate degree students enrolled in the regular and continuing programmes respectively; and 718 full time students in the graduate programmes (673 MA/MSc/M.Ed and 45 PhD).

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