Brief History Of University Of Gondar

Located in the history of Gondar, Ethiopia, University of Gondar is one of the oldest and most distinguished higher education institutions in the country. Our University was established in 1954 as a public health college and training center (PHC and TC) to train middle level health professionals who can run a network of health centers to address the pressing health issue. This was the birth of the philosophy of team approach and community based teaching which now has grown to Team Training Program (TTP) undertaken by the medical college.

Run by the Ministry of Health until the 1960, the training center joined Haile Selassie l University which now knows as Addis Ababa University. In 1961 by the act of internal decree known as “Charter of Haile Selassie i University”. In 1978, by bilateral agreement between Karl Marx University in Germany and Addis Ababa University, a medical faculty was established with in the training center a major milestone in the establishment of medical education in our country. In 1980-1981 the training center was renamed Gondar College of Medical Science [GCMS). GCMS gained autonomy from Addis Ababa University in 1992. In 2001 the first new faculty, Faculty of Management Sciences and Economics was created. The spring of 2003 saw the next phase of development, changing the name of GCMs to Gondar University College and creating three more faculties. In 2004, the institution is converted to University of Gondar.

QUICK FACTS

• Education from KG to PHD
• 4 colleges, 3 faculties, 2 schools
• 5 university campus
• 1 community school
• Over 40,000 graduates
• Current student population of approx. 26,000
• Over 1l ongoing community service project
• 3 academic journals
• 4 specialist research centers
• Over 5000 staff
• Hundreds of accommodation units
• Over 90 international and national partners, including 31 universities in 31 countries
• Tertiary level referral hospital serving 5 million residents.

Mission

University of Gondar is dedicated to contribute to the sustainable socio-economic development of the nation through provision of quality education, undertaking problem solving research and rendering relevant community services.

Vision

The vision of University of Gondar is to be the leading societal problem solving university in the country by 2020.

60^th year Diamond jubilee Celebration Logo

The logo for 60ch anniversary designed to symbolize the teaching learning, research, community services and health services Also it shows the year of establishment and the Moto of the university. For the 60th year anniversary celebration the diamond jubilee logo is being put on any electronic and print publication across the university

Specialized Referral Hospital

History indicates that the current university of Gondar hospital was established in 1928 G.C. During then the population size of the town was small. It was meant to provide service for around 20,000 surrounding population and then during the Italian invasion, the Italians added a few more buildings so that they can treat more wounded soldiers. Most of the buildings that exist now were built then. Currently the hospital is believed to serve approximately to 5 million people every year.

However with the growing number of patients and the limited patient beds, it was very challenging to provide the intended medical service. The university has played more attention to alleviate these problems and started working very closely with the government and partner organizations and came to the realization of 1000 bed specialized referral hospital. The three new buildings are intended for different purposes.

The four story building built by Sheik Muhammad Hussein Alamudin is for surgery and gynecology. The other four story building by the Ethiopian Government is for internal medicine and pediatrics and the third building is built by fund from USA and it’s for outpatient treatment center.

University’s Main Gate and President’s Office Building

Hence the university is found in the historical city of Gondar, some of the buildings in the university are affiliated with the tourist attraction sites and to illustrate the architecture design of the fasil Castle. The architectural design of the main gate and the president’s office highly affiliated to the attractive fasil castle building.

Millennium Stairs

Built during the Ethiopian millennium celebration and named after it, the millennium stairs connect Atse Tewoderos campus with maraki campus, having 222 stairs. It’s considered one of the longest the countries.

Community service

The very purpose of the establishment of the university is to help solve the communities problem. When it was established there very few health centers across the country. Thus, staff and students used to provide health services to villagers using mules for transportation. The university still provides services to villagers and the community in more magnified way. Also the mode of transpiration is now changed to cars. For the past 60 years the university was conducting different problem solving researches and providing relevant community services.

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Source: University of Gondar