Ethiopia established an Industry-University Forum to enhance the growth and textile industries by increasing the number of qualified human labour for industries, Ethiopian News Agency reported.

Industry State Minister, Tadesse Haile, said creating chain among the industries and universities is critical to generate qualified labour to the industries thereby improving their effectiveness and competitiveness.

In addition to this, the forum will enable universities to engage in researches that can be executed and transform industries to a better level.

The newly established forum is expected to create opportunity for jointly run activities between universities and industries to have a good management.

The Forum has established some 10 zonal structures for the leather-industry-university ties and 6 structures for textile industry-university ties.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency