{"id":1578,"date":"2024-03-01T14:09:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T14:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highlandcollege.edu.et\/?page_id=1578"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:52:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:52:29","slug":"back-ground","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/back-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief history of HLC"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1578\" class=\"elementor elementor-1578\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7793650 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7793650\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6b81ba elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c6b81ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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So far, more than 16,000 students\u00a0graduated from our college in different programs with high rate of graduate\u00a0employability. We also recieved several positive feedbacks from employers of\u00a0our graduates which is the source of our energy and inspiration.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"line-height: normal; background: white; --darkreader-inline-bgimage: initial; --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #181a1b;\" data-darkreader-inline-bgimage=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: black; --darkreader-inline-color: #e8e6e3;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); --darkreader-inline-color: #e8e6e3;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">More than 123 students who have different social problems but with\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); --darkreader-inline-color: #e8e6e3;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">outstanding academic achievements received free scholarship from the College.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; color: black; --darkreader-inline-color: #e8e6e3;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"> In monetary values, this is estimated to be about 6million Ethiopian\u00a0Birr.\u00a0 Besides, various types of donations have been given to private\u00a0individuals as well as government entities and thus the College is trying its\u00a0best to discharge its social responsibilities.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\">HLC <span style=\"color: black; --darkreader-inline-color: #e8e6e3;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">held the first ever National Conferences with the theme of\u00a0\u201c<b>Private Higher Education for an Inclusive Development in Ethiopia<\/b> <b>on\u00a0April 28, 2023.<\/b>\u201d The conference aims to demonstrate that private higher\u00a0education institutions should prioritize research and community service in\u00a0addition to teaching. The conference encourages teachers and students to gain\u00a0awareness, knowledge, and experiences on research work, enhance education\u00a0quality, contribute to the country&#8217;s development, and demonstrate that higher\u00a0education institutions should prioritize research and community service. <\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\">Generally,\u00a0the College strives to contribute substantially to the region, the nation and\u00a0beyond through quality education, research and community service.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Brief History of Highland College Highland College (HLC) is located in the beautiful city of Bahir Dar andat the shore of Lake Tana and established by a team of professionals who have\u00a0many years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1578","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1578\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}