Practices of Curriculum Planning and Development in Higher Education

In the Era of Globalization policy makers have required to approach education with the new socioeconomic dynamics. Accordingly various educational reforms have been made in developing and developed countries alike. However those established curriculum theories and principles have not been well considered. In this study one of the reforms made in Ethiopia has been analyzed against with those established curriculum theories and principles. In fact the study has been conducted based on the context of Ethiopian higher education curriculum reform theories; principles and approaches discussed would benefit both developing and developed countries equally.