Ambassador Tracey Ann Jacobson, Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, expressed the Embassy’s continued commitment to Ethiopia’s education sector, especially in English language instruction at universities across the country. Ambassador Jacobson and Dr. Solomon Abraha, CEO of Higher Education, Governance, and Administration at the Ministry of Education, jointly launched the nationwide conference “Enhancing English Language Teaching in Ethiopian Public Universities.”
During her remarks, Ambassador Jacobson highlighted the importance of a strong command of English to open doors to higher levels of education and career opportunities. For the Ministry of Education, Dr. Solomon expressed his appreciation for the partnership with the U.S. Embassy not only for strengthening English language capacity as a whole, but specifically for supporting the English Language Improvement Centers across Ethiopia’s public universities.
The U.S. Embassy has been contributing to English language learning in Ethiopia through diverse programs, including English Access Microscholarships (Access), English Language Fellows Program, English Language Specialists, and the Online Professional English Network Program. About two thousand students in Ethiopia have benefited from the Access program alone.
Strengthening English language quality improvement efforts in Universities across Ethiopia
Finalists Announced For Women’s Athlete of the Year 2022
The names of the five finalists for Women’s World Athlete of the Year have been confirmed, as the countdown to the World Athletics Awards 2022 continues.
The five athletes, who represent five countries from three area associations, have achieved sensational performances across a range of athletics disciplines in 2022, at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22, one-day meeting circuits and other events around the world.
Tobi Amusan, NGR
World 100m hurdles champion
Diamond League, Commonwealth and African 100m hurdles champion
Set a world 100m hurdles record of 12.12
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, JAM
World 100m champion, claiming a fifth gold medal in the event
Diamond League 100m champion
Ran a world-leading 10.62 among her record seven sub-10.70 100m races of the season
Kimberly Garcia, PER
World 20km race walk champion, winning Peru’s first ever World Athletics Championships medal
World 35km race walk champion in a South American record to complete a race walk double
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships 20km bronze medallist
Sydney McLaughlin, USA
World 400m hurdles and 4x400m champion
Broke the world 400m hurdles record with 51.41 at the US Championships
Further improved the world record to 50.68 to win the world title
Yulimar Rojas, VEN
World indoor and outdoor triple jump champion
Diamond League triple jump champion
Improved her world record to 15.74m in Belgrade
Training on digital skills for women instructors
The Ministry of Education, in collaboration with Huawei Ethiopia, organized a three-day digital training with the theme “empowering women with digital skills and supporting women’s leadership in technology.”
The first round of training was held from November 21 to November 23, 2022. Female instructors from various Ethiopian higher education institutions are among those taking part in the training. The second round begins on November 24, 2022. The training emphasized digital literacy (5G, AI, and cloud) as well as women in leadership.
Liming Ye, Huawei Ethiopia PR director, stated at the opening on November 21 that Huawei is exploring the value of digital technologies to improve women’s wellbeing in collaboration with the Ethiopian Ministry of Education. The director said, “We are committed to helping women engage in tech and providing more opportunities and platforms for women to unleash their potential and lead our society to a more prosperous and equitable future.”
Qatar World Cup revenue up by more than $1bn
Fifa has increased its World Cup revenue by more than $1bn (£840m) after taking the tournament to Qatar, the governing body has revealed.
Revenue generated by the four-year cycle of the Qatar World Cup (from 2018 to 2022, including an extra five months because of the winter schedule) will reach $7.5bn, compared with $6.4bn for the previous cycle in Russia.
Fifa officials estimate the windfall will generate an extra $700,000 in investment for the game, with $300,000 accounted for in emergency Covid funding. The next four years will also see an increase in funding for Fifa’s forward program with $200m to be spent each year on international talent development, a project overseen by Arsène Wenger. Fifa says that more funding will also be accompanied by an increased oversight on spending.
Infantino has been urged by a coalition of charities and NGOs to commit to paying $440m, equivalent to the pool of World Cup prize money, as compensation to migrant workers who were harmed in building the World Cup in Qatar and to the families of those workers who died.
Infantino, the subject of mockery after he compared himself to a migrant worker in his address to open the World Cup, has received some support from the Welsh first minister, who is in Qatar for the tournament despite complaints at home.
