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Education Minister, Dr Sintayehu Woldemicheal and UNISA Vice Chancellor, Barney Pityana signed the agreement.
As per the agreement, UNISA will be able to offer PhD courses in technology sciences, business and economics, among others fields.
The programme aims to train over 4000 Ethiopians over a five year period.
Training of the first batch of students will commence as of this coming academic year.
The ministry said it envisages training or getting trained 10,000 and 2,000 teachers in Masters and in PhD respectively at higher learning institutes locally or through distance education.
It is to be recalled that a week earlier, the ministry had signed an agreement with two Indian higher learning institutions.
UNISA is a distance education university, with headquarters in Pretoria.
There are approximately 200,000 enrolled students, and therefore it qualifies as one of the world's largest universities.
Courtesy of BuaNews