{"id":2157,"date":"2024-05-28T21:52:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highlandcollege.edu.et\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2024-06-01T16:59:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T16:59:56","slug":"a-brief-history-of-highland-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/2024\/05\/28\/a-brief-history-of-highland-college\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Highland College"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2157\" class=\"elementor elementor-2157\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a52b4f1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a52b4f1\" 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-2ce8750 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-outside elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel\" 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Lake Tana and established by a team of professionals who have many years of teaching experience at university and business consultancy service. Some of the share members of HLC are PhD holders and all others are at master level in different disciplines. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>HLC started its journey in 2003 by providing teachers training program at certificate level followed by diploma. Starting from 2006 E.C, the College has upgraded its training into undergraduate programs in various fields of study in regular, extension and distance programs in its own building at Bahir Dar and Injibara campuses.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Currently, the College admitted more than 2000 students in 12 programs (six degree and six TVET programs in business, health science and IT) in Bahir Dar and Injibara Campuses. So far, more than 16,000 students graduated from our college in different programs with high rate of graduate employability. We also received several positive feedbacks from employers of our graduates which is the source of our energy and inspiration.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>More than 123 students who have different social problems but with outstanding academic achievements received free scholarship from the College. In monetary values, this is estimated to be about 6million Ethiopian Birr.\u00a0 Besides, various types of donations have been given to private individuals as well as government entities and thus the College is trying its best to discharge its social responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>HLC held the first ever National Conferences with the theme of \u201c<strong>Private Higher Education for an Inclusive Development in Ethiopia<\/strong> <strong>on April 28, 2023.<\/strong>\u201d The conference aims to demonstrate that private higher education institutions should prioritize research and community service in addition to teaching. The conference encourages teachers and students to gain awareness, knowledge, and experiences on research work, enhance education quality, contribute to the country&#8217;s development, and demonstrate that higher education institutions should prioritize research and community service.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Generally, the College strives to contribute substantially to the region, the nation and beyond through quality education, research and community service.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\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>\u00a0 Highland College (HLC) is located in the beautiful city of Bahir Dar and at the shore of Lake Tana and established by a team of professionals who have many years of teaching experience at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2434,"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandcollege.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}