Browsing by Author "Desalegn Worku"

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    Applicability of Competition law and Principles in Ethiopia's Public Procurement Law and Practice
    (Addis Ababa University, 2021-12) Desalegn Worku; Solomon Abay(Associate Professor)
    The objective of PP is value for money which is procuring quality goods and services at a lower price at the right time. Thus, this study aims to examine the competitiveness of Ethiopian public procurement and contribute some recommendations. The study uses the ideal Perfectly Competitive Market structure of Economics and International Competition and Public Procurement Models to scrutinize the applicability of competition principles and laws on the Ethiopian public procurement; particularly, focused on Bidders' entry, number of Bidders, dominance, collusion, and the organization of authorities. Moreover, the findings reveal a lack of awareness of PP and competition principles and laws, even though Ethiopia developed standard competition and procurement laws from effective International Models. Furthermore, it exposes the preparations of ambiguous specifications, inappropriate selection of pp method, bid-rigging, lengthy PP, corruption, weak institutional framework, lack of coordination between relevant public bodies, dependency of the authorities or political influence, and other challenges and anticompetition practices. Furthermore, it is recommended; creating competitive Public Procurement by widening the participation of bidders, implementation of performance audit, awareness of bidrigging indications, Coordination, and cooperation between relevant public authorities, enhancing workforce capacity, improving the salary scale, developing independence, political, and budgetary free authority, developing a fast procurement payment system and including E-procurement, Facilitation of self-regulation mechanism, the participation of different stakeholders including media and other relevant recommendations.
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    Assessing Students’ Note Taking Problems During English Classroom: General Wako Gutu Secondary School
    (Addis Ababa University, 2024-07) Desalegn Worku; Badima Belay(PhD)
    This Study aimed at assessing students’ note taking problems during English classroom in General Wako Gutu secondary school particularly grade eleven students. In order to reach on the main problems of students note taking, the study examined: Students’ background note taking concept, students’ related problems in note taking, teachers’ related problems in note taking of students and content related problems in note taking of students. The finding of this study obtained by using three data gathering instruments such as: questionnaire, interview and observation. To achieve the purpose of the study the researcher used 30 items of a questionnaire which are categorized in four main sections such as: Students’ background note taking concept, Students’ perspective toward students related problems in note taking, Students’ perspective toward teachers related problems in note taking of students, and Students’ perspective toward content related problems of note taking of students. The researcher used (7) semi-structured interview questions in order to check the validity of data gathered through questionnaires. The samples of the study were 88 students which were selected through random sampling techniques and 5 English teachers who were teaching General Wako Gutu Secondary school. A descriptive statistical data analysis was used to analyze the collected data. The result of the study showed that the major problems that face students during note taking in teachers’ related problem was; fast speed of teachers’ speech (speech rate) (92.0%), in students’ related problems: lack of writing fast enough during lecture (88.6%) and lack of using special symbols and abbreviations (85.2%) and in content related problem density of information delivered by teacher (88%) are the problems that are identified by students’ and teachers’ sound.