To
begin with, RADA is an abbreviated name of the College that stands for Research
and Academic Development for Africa. This name reflects that RADA College
aspires to access education and training as well as research outputs not only
in Ethiopia but also in Africa. RADA College is dedicated to the
advancement of academic excellence by offering relevant, accessible, affordable
and quality education so as to bring scholarly impact on the destiny of its students
and trainees in Ethiopia and beyond.
RADA College
was established in 2014 as a privately owned institution of Higher Education in
Ethiopia by two devoted academicians to address the educational needs of people
within the country and in different parts of Africa at large. The founders of
the College are two Ethiopian academicians who are well trained in relevant
fields of studies with wide ranges of experience and managerial skills.
The vision
of RADA College is to be one of the top ten colleges acknowledged for their
quality education and research output in Africa by 2030. The mission of RADA
College is to produce competent graduates, deliver applicable and economical
problem solving research outputs, and provide need based community services on
time and accessible place through training, consultancy, research &
education, by creating access to education for the needy people through
breaking location barriers to foster the social and economic development of the
community in and beyond the country.
Pursuant to
its vision and mission, RADA College takes particular pride in the broad range
of its programs and in the interactive approach to the teaching-learning
process. RADA College has been offering education and training at different
levels in various nationally licensed fields of studies. These include:
Technical and Vocational Education
and Training (TVET) in regular mode of delivery accredited by different
regional Technical and Vocational Education and Training Agencies:
The College
offers the TVET programs in the following area of studies such as Crop
Production; Natural Resources Conservation; Clinical Nursing; Pharmacy;
Cooperative Accounting and Auditing; Data Base Administration; Hardware and
Networking Services; Marketing and Sales Management; Accounting & Finance;
Purchasing Supply chain Management; Secretarial Science and Office Management; and
Human Resource Management at its Branch Campuses located in different parts of
the country.
Undergraduate programs in regular
and distance modes of deliveries licensed by Federal Education and Training
Authority:
In the regular undergraduate program
RADA College is offering Management, Accounting and Finance, Clinical Nursing in
Health Science areas and Information Technology at its various campuses such as
Debre Berhan, Kombolcha and Gondar campuses in Amhara Region as well as at
Nedjo cmpus in Oromia Regional State.
RADA College
is also offering five undergraduate programs through distance education
division which include Management, Accounting and finance, Marketing
Management, Economics, and Rural Development & Agricultural Extension. The
undergraduate programs in distance mode cover the Amhara, Afar, Oromiya,
Benishangul and Gumuz regional national states of the country.
With the aim
of creating an opportunity for those who otherwise would not have access to
higher education in the regular mode,
Postgraduate programs in regular and
extension modalities licensed by Federal Education and Training Authority:
RADA College
has been offering graduate programs in three fields of studies namely in Master
of Business Administration (MBA); Master of Accounting and Finance (MSc) and
Master of Development Economics (MA). These programs are offered in regular and
extension mode of deliveries at Debre Berhan, Kombolcha and Dessie Campuses of
the College in Amhara regional national state.
In addition
to the above mentioned educational levels, RADA College also conducts:
·
Distance
education academy at primary and secondary school level accredited by different
regional Education Bureaus.
The distance education academy
entertains students of grades 7 to 12 in the distance mode in Amhara and Oromia regional states of Ethiopia.
·
Drivers’
Training Institutes accredited by different Regional road and Transport
Authorities.
RADA College has also created
collaboration at National, Regional and International levels that would help
the College to develop institutional capacity, system and environment supporting
and promoting culture of research and scholarship among staff and students of
the College. To this end RADA College has extended its services to address research,
consultancy and training needs in collaboration with other public and private
organizations and institutions at the local, national, regional and
international levels. Accordingly, RADA
College has already established collaboration and partnership by signing Memorandum
of Understanding with well-known local similar institutions such as:-
Ø Ethiopian Management Institute;
Ø Ethiopian Economics Professionals
Association;
Ø Ethiopian Knowledge and Technology
Diffusion Authority, and
Ø Cheshire Ethiopia
that are some among many others.
The College has also created partnership by signing
Memorundum of Understanding with:-
Ø Eelo
University
of Somali Land
in East Africa;
Ø Center for Democracy and Governance of Somaliland in East Africa;
Ø Uganda Management Institute;
Ø Ghana Institute of Management and Public
Administration;
Ø Research Academia, V.V.Vanniaperumal College for
Women, Virudhunagar, Tamilnadu, India; and
Ø Monark
University of India.