Double Agendas in International Partnership Programs: A case study from an Ethiopian University

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Table 1. Participants and their positions.

Pseudonym	Positions	Total participants
Birara	Administrative staff (director, dean, heads) who also participated as academic staff	05
Ziad
Desta
Asnake	Academic staff (working as instructors, researchers, supervisors)	10
Dargie
Shume
Fuad
Bayessa
Yegerem
Andualem
Awgichew
Almaz
Addis	PhD students (who also participated as academic staff)	09
Awol
Emebet
Getahun
Mahlet

Appendix A. Summary of declared rationales of EU–NU Partnership.

Themes emerged as rationales from the document	Major themes
To build staff capacity in training, research, and community service (27)	Academic (60)
To enhance research outputs (15)
To improve educational quality and raise international standards (11)
To improve international experience in teaching and research (7)
To improve infrastructural capacity and access to educational resources (lab, libraries, ICT, etc …) (22)	Economic (49)
To improve access to funding/financial resources (for research, scholarship, training, conference, etc.) (22)
To contribute to economic growth (by improving labour force, competitiveness, etc.) (5)
To respond to social and community development needs (12)	Social (24)
To improve social networks and connections (9)
To ensure individual right and development (3)

Summary of priority rationales as ranked by participants.

No of Participants	Rationale Typology
	Academic	Economic	Social
24	All (24) ranked it as 1^st priority	22 ranked 2^nd 2 ranked least	2 ranked 2^nd ranked least

List of analysed documents and purposes.

Documents	Pages	Purposes
The Second Growth and Transformation Plan	185–192	Understanding the underlying policy basis and contexts
The Fifth Education Sector Development Program	110–113, 116–121
FDRE, The Higher Education Proclamation (2009)	13–15, 36, 57
MoST, Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (2012)	18–22, 25–26
2015–2020 Strategic plans of EU	35, 40–44, 93–100	Exploring declared rationales and identifying the prioritised one
EU–NU Partnership Agreement document	1, 2–6
EU–NU Partnership Proposal document	1–30
2016 Progress report	3–9

FDRE. (2009), . TheHigher Education Proclamation (proclamation no.650/2009) (650/2009). Ethiopian Council of Education, 64,4976–5044.

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