Innovation in Education System
INNOVATION In EDUCATION SYSTEM: For Leap Change and Expedite Sustainable 
Development- Make Education Meaningful and Improve HDI (Bantyehun Tezazu, BASc, MEng, PEng, PMP)
Topic: Innovation in Education System
Time: May 9, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Innovation in Education for Sustainable Development in Ethiopia
Engaging University Community with the People for Leap Change
Bantyehun Tezazu, BASc, M.Eng., P.Eng., PMP
202 Edenbridge Drive, Toronto, Canada
btezazu@gmail.com; www.4epr.org
Abstract: The education system produced thousands of intellectuals and scientists that have made enormous contributions in Ethiopia and all over the world for many decades. In the past several years, things have not evolved as planned. Ethiopia needs several millions of higher education graduates in all disciplines to disrupt problems like poverty, human suffering, stunting, high mortality rates, unemployment, and transform the work-life for 80% of the population and replace them with high productivity jobs for all people. Over the past forty years, the number of graduates increased from less than a thousand per year to over one hundred fifty thousand per year. The growth is in the right direction, but not enough and not the correct type of training to meet the country’s needs. Consequently, thousands of graduates are joining the ranks of the unemployed annually, making the condition worse. Innovation in the education system can bring a leap change. Innovation in the education system can happen in four parallel channels within the country’s resources. (1) Curriculum enhancement can solve the country’s immediate issues and position the country on the path to sustainable development. (2) School systems and Higher Education Institutions can engage the population to make them part of the solution. (3) University can establish multi-stakeholder teams and serve as catalysts for leap change across the country. (4) Ethiopia can make leap changes and earn multi-fold growth in all economic sectors, create rewarding jobs and enable every citizen to gain their Universal Human Rights[1], improve
HDI[2] and achieve SDGs[3] within2 decades.
The seminar proposes innovation in education to fill five significant needs. (1) Address peoples’ urgent issues, including COVID-19, and be part of the sustainable solution. (2) Expand the workspace for all graduates. (3) Produce workplace-ready graduates. (4) Modify programs and curriculums to meet short and long-term needs. (5) Produce capable graduates for success, and to nurture national and global peace
[1] UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 25) states everyone has the right: to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing, medical care and necessary social services; To security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood.
[2] HDI (Human Development Index) is a cumulative measure of a country peoples’ human development to compare with the rest of the world and invoke action. HDI is measured using (a) Life expectancy as a measure of a long healthy life, (b) Education level as a measure of knowledge, (c) Annual income to measure standards of living.
[3]SDGs are the UN seventeen Sustainable Development Goals 193 countries’ leaders signed on September 25, 2015, at the UN in New York. The goals are to be achieved by 2030.
The Agenda
- Disrupt problems to trigger leap change
- Make Education Meet Needs
- Reduce Impact of COVID-19, Actions Post Virus and Beyond
- Raise the Human Development Index (HDI) and Move in Sync
- Readying people to address the country’s needs
- Make Leap Change in Human Development
- Stay the course with the rest of the world like Big Data, AI, BOTs, PV, Nanotech, 3D Printing, Bio-tech.
- Reverse engineer / modify for a new accelerator to all-inclusive sustainable development
Bantyehun Tezazu, BASc, MEng, PEng, PMP.
Professional Engineer, author, community organizer, and trainer with over 30 years of multi-disciplinary business experience. Planning and operations, information system management, strategy development, and investment management experiences in Ethiopia & Toronto, Canada.
Wrote a book about Sustainable Development and started 4EPR Enterprise (Educationally Economically Environmentally Engineered Productivity Revitalization) a comprehensive approach to achieving the UN 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) in developing countries.
Produced 25-year Plans for a 30,000MW hydroelectric, nuclear, fossil and other Electrical Power System.
Developed models and taught investment management courses like business case analysis, strategy development, and project management with the post-implementation review to engineers and other business professionals. Led different organizations to design the twenty-five-year electrical supply adequacy for the City of Toronto. Conducted SDG Seminars and workshops in many forums.