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Pagume 2018
Pagume 4, 2018
The 2019 E.C. registration dates, university by university
Seventeen universities have now published their notices. Wolkite opens on Meskerem 4 and Ambo closes the season on Meskerem 19, with most of the country in between.
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Pagume 4, 2018
Most Grade 12 candidates now sit the exam on a computer
The share sitting the national exam on a screen has gone from 4.37 percent to 60.82 percent in three years, and the Minister has said the plan is to go fully online.
2 min read
Pagume 4, 2018
The Ethiopian Public Service University has a new emblem
The university has changed its logo, and the announcement carries the part a placement candidate needs: what this institution now is, and who it now admits.
2 min read
Pagume 2, 2018
The Grade 12 pass rate has nearly quadrupled in four years
The assessment service has published the share of candidates reaching 50 percent for each of the last five years. It went from 3.32 percent in 2014 E.C. to 12.85 percent in 2018 E.C., and the climb was not uninterrupted.
3 min read
Pagume 2, 2018
Students who missed the federal school entrance exam sit it on Pagume 2
The Ministry of Education has called a second sitting of the federal secondary school entrance exam, for students who were selected but did not sit the paper on Nehase 29. It opens at 8:30 in the morning at the nearest exam centre.
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Nehase 30, 2018
The AAU entrance test sits on 7 and 8 September
The testing centre has published the venue schedule for the Undergraduate Admission Test. There are three sessions a day, and applicants who chose three named institutions now sit at AASTU.
3 min readNehase 30, 2018
The science and technology entrance test is on 9 September
Everyone who registered online with Adama or Addis Ababa science and technology university sits on ጳጉሜን 04. Passing it takes you out of the Ministry's placement.
3 min read
Nehase 30, 2018
The NGAT results have been released
Everyone who sat the postgraduate entrance test on 26 and 27 August can now look up their score at result.ethernet.edu.et with the username they registered under.
2 min readNehase 29, 2018
Debre Tabor says seven Disqualified results were an error
The university's registrar told the assessment service that seven remedial candidates were marked Disqualified by mistake, and asked other universities to re-check their own.
3 min readNehase 29, 2018
The state lost 8 billion birr to exit exam failures
A study presented at a Ministry workshop puts the two-year exit exam pass rate at 33.1 per cent, and the cost sharing the state did not collect back at over 8 billion birr.
3 min read
Nehase 28, 2018
Grade 12 candidates can choose their university and field until 10 September
The Ministry of Education has opened university and field of study choices for everyone who earned a university entrance result on the regular 2018 E.C. programme. The portal closes at 23:59 on 10 September 2026.
5 min readNehase 28, 2018
The university intake figures going round have no source
Fewer than 130,000 entrants, fewer than 50,000 remedial places and a mark above 38 per cent are circulating this week. No official has been named for any of them.
3 min read
Nehase 28, 2018
A new university placement system is coming next year
Education Minister Berhanu Nega told public university presidents that a technology-assisted placement and transfer system starts with the coming academic year.
2 min read
Nehase 27, 2018
Health licensing exam results are out on the EHPLE portal
Everyone who sat the Nehase 2018 E.C. competency examination can now open their score at hple.moh.gov.et, signing in with a Fayda FAN. This is the first round that also shows each candidate a domain by domain breakdown.
3 min read
Nehase 26, 2018
Remedial results are out, and some students say theirs reads Disqualified
Results for the 2018 E.C. remedial programme opened on result.ethernet.edu.et. Students at ten universities have told Tikvah Education their scores came back marked Disqualified.
4 min readAugust 2026
Nehase 2018
Nehase 25, 2018
Addis Ababa University has opened 200 presidential scholarships
Each place covers the full cost and carries a stipend, and it is claimed through the admission application that closes on 4 September. Keeping one takes a 3.50 CGPA.
3 min read
Nehase 25, 2018
Addis Ababa University has a second, separate call for extension study
The extension call is its own notice on the university portal, and its rules are not the regular call's. It shares one deadline with them: 4 September.
4 min readNehase 24, 2018
Two science and technology universities have opened entrance test registration
Adama and Addis Ababa science and technology universities are registering natural science candidates who reached 50 percent in the 2018 E.C. Grade 12 exam. Registration runs to 8 September.
3 min read
Nehase 24, 2018
A bank guard passed for university, and the bank is paying for the degree
Kes Seifu Tesfay guarded an Anbesa Bank branch in Tigray for seven years. He scored 320.25 in the 2018 E.C. Grade 12 exam, and the bank says it will cover his university costs and keep paying his family his salary.
2 min readNehase 23, 2018
Grade 12 complaint replies have started, and the cut-off going round is fake
The assessment service says it is answering complaints about the 2018 E.C. Grade 12 result, by phone, by text and inside the portal. It also says the cut-off mark being shared on social media was never published.
3 min read
Nehase 22, 2018
Universities may not move or admit first-year students placed by the Ministry
A circular signed by Education Minister Berhanu Nega tells every public university that moving a placed first-year student, or admitting one placed somewhere else, is prohibited.
3 min read
Nehase 21, 2018
How to file a Grade 12 result complaint before 1 September
The complaint address everyone is sharing opens a page of instructions rather than a form. The form sits inside your own results page, and the window closes at 4:00 PM on 1 September 2026.
5 min readNehase 20, 2018
The five named top scorers, and the schools that passed everyone
All five of the year's highest Grade 12 results now have names and photographs, and the Ministry counts 88 schools that passed every candidate they entered.
3 min read
Nehase 19, 2018
The Grade 12 result is live, and a complaint no longer means a journey
The assessment service opened the 2018 E.C. results on the evening of 25 August. There are three addresses and no fourth one, and complaints are filed online until 1 September.
3 min read
Nehase 18, 2018
The highest score of the year belongs to Jalal Girma
The 591.6 out of 600 that the Ministry read out on 22 August as the best result of the year now has a name. It was scored in natural science at Oda Special Boarding School in Adama.
2 min read
Nehase 18, 2018
The top social science score belongs to Sedem Abdulaziz
The highest social science result of the year, 576.2 out of 600, was scored at Ifa Boru Special Boarding School in Dodola. The channel that named the student calls it a first for the stream.
3 min read
Nehase 18, 2018
Addis Ababa University has opened first-degree admission
The call covers the 2026/27 academic year and runs through the university's own entrance test. Applications for that test open on 25 August 2026 and close on 4 September.
5 min read
Nehase 17, 2018
NGAT entrance tickets can now be downloaded
Registered candidates can sign in and print the entrance ticket, which names the centre, the session and the date. The test runs on 26 and 27 August 2026, and everyone is asked to arrive half an hour early.
2 min readNehase 17, 2018
Where the Grade 12 passes came from, region by region
Addis Ababa passed 32.3 percent of its candidates and Gambella 3.74 percent. Oromia passed the most students in raw numbers. The Ministry also counted 565 schools where nobody passed, down from 1,232 last year.
3 min read
Nehase 17, 2018
The student behind the second-highest Grade 12 score has been named
Hidase Zemenu scored 583 out of 600 in natural science, the second of the four results the Ministry read out. Her school had already named its library after her for a 99.67 average.
2 min readNehase 16, 2018
70,544 students passed the 2018 E.C. Grade 12 national exam
The Ministry of Education announced the results on 22 August 2026. Of the 550,210 candidates who sat the exam, 12.8 percent reached 50 percent or above. Candidates who sat on a computer passed at more than four times the rate of those who sat on paper.
3 min readNehase 16, 2018
When the Grade 12 result arrives, and what to do if you disagree with it
Results go out to students on Monday 24 or Tuesday 25 August 2026. Candidates who want to contest a score get five or six days. Remedial places will be fewer this year, and the cut-off mark has not been set yet.
3 min readNehase 16, 2018
The highest Grade 12 scores of 2018 E.C., and the schools behind them
The top result of the year is 591.6 out of 600, from a boarding school in Adama. The Ministry read out four highest scores at its briefing on 22 August 2026, two in natural science and two in social science.
2 min read
Nehase 15, 2018
Federal boarding school registration runs to 26 August
The Ministry of Education has extended registration for the federal special boarding secondary schools to Nehase 20, 2018 E.C. Some regions published their Grade 8 results late, which left students unable to apply in time.
1 min read
Nehase 15, 2018
Some NGAT candidates have been moved to a different university
Not every public university is an NGAT centre this round, and candidates who registered at one that was left out have been reassigned. The examination is expected on Nehase 20 and 21, 2018 E.C.
2 min read
Nehase 15, 2018
The 93 percent Grade 12 pass claim going round is fake
A news-style card saying the Ministry of Education announced a 93 percent Grade 12 pass rate is a fabrication, and the picture itself was made with AI. The real result came out the next day, and the national pass rate was 12.8 percent.
3 min read
Nehase 15, 2018
The health licensing exam finished on its third day
The competency examination that began on Nehase 13 closed with the nursing sittings on 21 August. It ran at centres in 31 public universities, for first-degree graduates in 17 health fields.
1 min readNehase 11, 2018
Canada is halving the places for new international students
Canada will issue up to 408,000 study permits in 2026, and only 155,000 of them go to newly arriving students, down from 305,900. Graduates also face a language test to work after finishing, and studying there has never guaranteed the right to stay.
3 min read
Nehase 11, 2018
Ten public universities open the president's post to competition
The Ministry of Education has approved a directive covering how public university presidents are recruited, selected and appointed. Ten universities go first, and each one's own governing board runs the competition.
2 min read
Nehase 11, 2018
Addis Ababa University law students win Africa and reach the world finals
A team from the AAU School of Law came first in the African round of the FDI Moot, an international mock-court competition, beating 14 other teams from across the continent. They go on to the world finals in Shenzhen, China, in October.
2 min read
Nehase 10, 2018
A qualification for bookkeepers: ETiCPA opens the ATQ to applicants
The Ethiopian Institute of Certified Public Accountants is calling for applicants to its Accounting Technician Qualification. It is aimed at the middle level of finance work in both government and private employment, and eleven institutions are accredited to teach it.
2 min read
Nehase 7, 2018
Health professionals sit the licensing exam from 19 to 21 August
The Ministry of Health has set the competency examination for Nehase 13 to 15, 2018 E.C. Orientation is the afternoon before. Candidates carry in a National ID and a printed slip with a QR code, and the centre named on the slip is the only place the exam can be sat.
3 min read
Nehase 5, 2018
Free coding training is open to students, and the target runs to Nehase
The national coders programme passed five million enrolments in June and is aiming for seven million by Nehase 2018 E.C. The courses are free, registration is at ethiocoders.et, and a student can start over the kremt holiday without the school doing anything.
3 min read
Nehase 5, 2018
Eleven more vocational subjects arrive in Grade 11 from 2019 E.C.
The Ministry of Education has named 11 additional work-and-practice trades for Grades 11 and 12, starting with Grade 11 in the 2019 E.C. school year. The Addis Ababa Education Bureau has now issued the implementation manual that tells its schools how to pick which of the eleven to open.
5 min readNehase 5, 2018
Curriculum Plus: what international schools in Ethiopia are being asked to change
The Ministry of Education wants international schools to teach parts of the Ethiopian curriculum and to enrol more foreign nationals. Enforcement was set for September 2026, and a transition period has been signalled but not published.
3 min readNehase 5, 2018
Grade 12 results for 2018 E.C.: what is known about the release date
The exam ran from 30 June to 23 July 2026 for 563,858 registered candidates. Results were signalled for early September and had not been released when this was published. They were announced on 22 August 2026.
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