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[SPEAKER_00]: [Automatic captions by Autotekst using OpenAI Whisper V3. May contain recognition errors.]
My name is Yirgalem Mekuriya.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm from Hawassa University and the Department of Information Systems.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I work as a lecturer there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What did motivate you to actually go to the university?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I come from a small family, so education is the only thing for those living in a rural area.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I joined the university as the main reason for developing my career and developing my collaboration with others.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would find different physicians with different lectures or different academic camps through the university.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That made me to join the university.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What is your suggestion?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have any suggestion of how we can motivate girls to join universities and higher education?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, my motivation or my suggestion for girls to join the university is it needs some little bit work on their undergrad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In order to join the university, girls need the higher grade or the higher GPA.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we have to work on the undergrad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the one thing is to motivate them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: we have to connect the undergrad students to work hard on the learning materials or the learning subjects so they will join the university.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we can make other university females who are working in the university.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So one of me is one of the university lecturers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: May I be a role model for them?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much.