The Implication of the New Education Roadmap Towards Entrepreneurial Orientated Transformation of Ethiopian Higher Educational Institutions

[eBuilding the future of younger generations is the unalterable role of higher education everywhere. For this purpose, countries develop a plan or strategy in order to harmonize their education system with their development endeavours and comply with the dynamism of the time. Cognizant to this, Ethiopia has also launched a new ‘educational roadmap' to transform its educational system to accord with the requirements of 21st century education systems that play roles of transforming the socio-economic development of the nation.This article is therefore, dedicated to explore the basic research question that; to what extent the new Ethiopian Education Roadmap will pave a way for entrepreneurial orientation of Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in the country, by employing a method of qualitative document analysis on the draft roadmap document and focus group discussion held in two of the country's public higher educational institutions together with a literature review of various sources. The enquiry is made from the point of view of Clark's (1998) seven tenets of entrepreneurial higher educational institutions and after a thorough discussion on these tenets, the article concluded that beyond addressing the problems of former education system, Ethiopia needs to set up an entrepreneurial ecosystem in the HEIs which demands internally driven transformation in the universities in line with the nation's development aspirations in order to entrepreneurially inspire the graduates and hence control unemployment in particular and alleviate problems of current economic, social and political catastrophes in general