Ethiopia: only 3% of high school students pass university entrance exams

Barely 3% of Ethiopian high school students have passed the university entrance exam, the education minister has announced, a score similar to that of last year.

“Of the 845,188 students who took part in the entrance exam, only 27,000 obtained the average required to be admitted to university”, explained Berhanu Nega, quoted by the national news agency ENA.

“This means that only 3.2% passed the exam, a drop of 0.01 percentage points…