HRDA Standing Committee of the House Oversees ECSU`s Activities
Human Resource and Development Affairs Standing Committee of House of Peoples` Representatives oversaw the activities of Ethiopian Civil Service University on March 30, 2014. The overseeing programme included hearing the six month performance report, discussion with academic and administrative staff, visiting facilities of the University and infrastructure development activities.
Ato Tamene Chalchisa, Head of Institutional Planning and Assessment, presented a highlight of the 2005 E.C. plan performance and the six month performance report of 2006 E.C in light with one of the perspectives of the University`s BSC plan – enhancing the satisfaction of the public sector with the quality of its core businesses.
Ato Tamene has begun with an overview presentation that gives a clear picture of the University.Tamene said that one thousand employees are currently working in the University. Out of this 200 of them are academic staffs including 22 international staff. He also said 3156 students are currently enrolled in Bachelor Degree Programmes and 1395 are enrolled in Masters Degree Progerammmes.
Ato Tamene also stated that the satisfaction surveys made on different services of the University showed that service delivery of the University has been improving. For example Trainees’ satisfaction on the quality of the trainings reaches to 90%, working graduates satisfaction on relevance of the programmes to their actual jobs is 76.4%, employers’ satisfaction on graduates performance is 78%, trainees’ satisfaction on relevance of the trainings to enhance their problem solving capabilities reaches to 90%, and satisfaction of trainees and students on support services of the University reaches to 88% and 90% respectively.
Different support programmes like tutorial and language classes and computer trainings enhance the retention rate in the University. Accordingly the retention rate of female students reaches to 98% in Bachelor Degree programme and 99% in Masters Degree Programme. Where as, the retention rate of students from emerging regions becomes 98% in Bachelor Degree Programme and 99% in Master Degree Programme.
The Committee, after hearing the report, has gone to visit different Institutes and administrative support services and held discussions with directors They also visited buildings and infrastructure development. Before they concluded their visit, the committee held discussions with academic and administrative staff of the University.
Asked about their observation of the University, Honorable Tadesse Hordofa, Human Resource and Development Affairs Standing Committee chair person said we will have final report after discussing with the management on issues that we observed and raised by the employees.
"In general, the University is doing well specially in institutionalizing the change processes. Both in the academic and administrative sections: change army teams are organized, the day to day activities are assessed though they lack consistency. I believe that the University can serve as a model for many of the public universities in the country in this respect, " said Honorable Tadesse.