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| President of Micro Business College, Mr. Abera Tilahun during his Opening Remarks, prior to the 7th Wangari Maathai Memorial Lecture by Dr. Solomon Belay Tessema at the college’s Ambo Campus on 15 April. PHOTO: TESHALE CHALUMA MICRO BUSINESS COLLEGE |
Opening remarks by the President of Micro Business College, Mr. Abera Tilahun, as usual gifted a worthy prelude to the 7th Wangari Maathai Memorial Lecture by Dr. Solomon Belay Tessema. This time, Mr. Abera Tilahun was viewing at science education as chieftain of an educational institution. Though science education and scientific wisdom were essential for the emancipation of humankind, providing scientific education needed huge lot of investment. “I am sure that regarding science education, developing countries like ours is facing certain stiff challenges. Science education is one of the branches that demands pretty more infrastructure [...] and rapid updating of the syllabi”, he said.
Mr. Abera pointed that specialization has become the order of the day. Astrophysics, for example, is a specialization that has found many followers. “All such specialization demands huge investment of human resource and money” he reiterated. Mr. Abera said that being a costly subject, investment on space science by developing countries usually raised many questions as to why a poor country should go after such expensive exploration. “Of course, sentiments behind those questions are right. But equally right is the sentiment for investing in the areas of space science, considering the immense of benefits the space could reap”, Mr. Abera opined.
He said that it has been agreed in principle that the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi would be supporting the college to establish a science and environment faculty at Uru-Gamo. Mr. Abera Tilahun expressed hope that once realized, probably within a year, the Uru-Gamo campus would start producing a rural network of able young scientists in the field of environment and natural science.
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